My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Maps and Views Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Maps and Views
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Maps and Views I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous 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 Maps and Views
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Maps and Views All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "... 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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Maps and Views
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Maps and Views I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Maps and Views
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Maps and Views If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Maps and Views
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Maps and Views This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) 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 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Maps and Views I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Maps and Views
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Maps and Views Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Maps and Views
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Maps and Views "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Maps and Views
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Maps and Views
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Maps and Views "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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
