Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Maps and Views Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Maps and Views
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Maps and Views "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Maps and Views
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Maps and Views
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Maps and Views Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Maps and Views
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Maps and Views "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Maps and Views
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Maps and Views The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Maps and Views
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Maps and Views "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Maps and Views
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Maps and Views "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Maps and Views
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman 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.
-- Anonymous Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Maps and Views Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Maps and Views
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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) 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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Maps and Views
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Maps and Views If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Maps and Views
