"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Maps and Views
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Maps and Views Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Maps and Views
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Maps and Views "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Maps and Views
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Maps and Views I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views
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 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Maps and Views "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Maps and Views
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 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong 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 "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 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Maps and Views The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Maps and Views
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Maps and Views Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Maps and Views
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Maps and Views I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Maps and Views
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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 Maps and Views
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) 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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Maps and Views It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Maps and Views What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright 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 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Maps and Views
