Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Maps and Views
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Maps and Views To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Maps and Views
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Maps and Views "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Maps and Views
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Maps and Views Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Maps and Views "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Maps and Views I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Maps and Views
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Maps and Views UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Maps and Views
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Maps and Views Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Maps and Views The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Maps and Views
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Maps and Views
