I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Maps and Views A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Maps and Views
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Maps and Views "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Maps and Views
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Maps and Views
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Maps and Views "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Maps and Views Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Maps and Views
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Maps and Views When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Maps and Views
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Maps and Views Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Maps and Views
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Maps and Views I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "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) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Maps and Views I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Maps and Views
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Maps and Views "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Maps and Views
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna 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. Maps and Views "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) 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
