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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Maps and Views A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Maps and Views
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Maps and Views "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Maps and Views
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Maps and Views Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Maps and Views
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Maps and Views We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Maps and Views
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Maps and Views To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Maps and Views
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Maps and Views blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Maps and Views
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Maps and Views "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards 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 Maps and Views
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Maps and Views "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Maps and Views
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Maps and Views I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Maps and Views
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Maps and Views This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Maps and Views
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Maps and Views Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Maps and Views
