The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Speciality Maps As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Speciality Maps
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Speciality Maps Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Speciality Maps
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Speciality Maps Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Speciality Maps
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Speciality Maps Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Speciality Maps
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Speciality Maps Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Speciality Maps
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Speciality Maps Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Speciality Maps
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "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 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Speciality Maps A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Speciality Maps
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Speciality Maps The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Speciality Maps
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Speciality Maps Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Speciality Maps
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Speciality Maps "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Speciality Maps
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Speciality Maps Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "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) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Speciality Maps
