Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "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) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Maps and Views
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Maps and Views It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Maps and Views
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Maps and Views Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Maps and Views
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Maps and Views If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Maps and Views
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "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 "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Maps and Views If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words 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
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Maps and Views The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Maps and Views
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Maps and Views "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Maps and Views
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Maps and Views
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Maps and Views Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Maps and Views
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 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Maps and Views "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) 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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Maps and Views
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Maps and Views Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Maps and Views
