The Medieval town of Zuerich - Town map by Jos Murer, 1576. The map is magnified to 4 levels and is presented on up to 64 individual sheets with navigation helps.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Maps and Views "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Maps and Views 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Maps and Views
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Maps and Views Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Maps and Views
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Maps and Views A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Maps and Views
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Maps and Views A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Maps and Views
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Maps and Views
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Maps and Views Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Maps and Views
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Maps and Views "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Maps and Views
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Maps and Views "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Maps and Views
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Maps and Views That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Maps and Views
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Maps and Views "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Maps and Views
