Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Maps and Views
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Maps and Views Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Maps and Views
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Maps and Views "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Maps and Views
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Maps and Views "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Maps and Views
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "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) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Maps and Views Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Maps and Views
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Maps and Views I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Maps and Views
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Maps and Views Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Maps and Views
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Maps and Views "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 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Maps and Views
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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
chara A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Maps and Views
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Maps and Views The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "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 It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Maps and Views
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Man and wife make one fool. Maps and Views I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
