Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Maps and Views
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 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Maps and Views This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Maps and Views
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Maps and Views "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Maps and Views
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Maps and Views If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Maps and Views
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "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) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Maps and Views "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Maps and Views
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Maps and Views "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Maps and Views
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Maps and Views
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Maps and Views Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "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 Maps and Views
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz My other wife is beautiful. 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 Maps and Views I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Maps and Views
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Maps and Views Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Maps and Views
