No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Maps and Views Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Maps and Views I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Maps and Views
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Maps and Views Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Maps and Views
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Maps and Views The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Maps and Views The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Maps and Views
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Spinster: A bachelor's wife. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Maps and Views If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri 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 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 Maps and Views
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Maps and Views A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) 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 like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Maps and Views I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Maps and Views Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Maps and Views
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Maps and Views Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Maps and Views
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Maps and Views If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Maps and Views
