I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Maps and Views
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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.
-- Crowf There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Maps and Views
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Maps and Views You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Maps and Views
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Maps and Views In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Maps and Views
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Maps and Views
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Maps and Views Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier My other wife is beautiful. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Maps and Views "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Maps and Views We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Maps and Views
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Maps and Views I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Maps and Views
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Maps and Views May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "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 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
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