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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Map and Views "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Map and Views
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Map and Views If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Map and Views
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Map and Views To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Map and Views
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Map and Views Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Map and Views
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Map and Views Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Map and Views
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Map and Views All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Map and Views
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Map and Views Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Map and Views
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Map and Views Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Map and Views
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Map and Views A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Map and Views
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Map and Views Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Map and Views
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Map and Views Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Map and Views
