"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Maps and Views
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Maps and Views
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Maps and Views Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
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 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) What's new? Most of my wife. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Maps and Views
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Maps and Views Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Maps and Views
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Maps and Views The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Maps and Views
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Maps and Views
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Maps and Views "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Maps and Views
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Maps and Views The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Maps and Views
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Maps and Views Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Maps and Views
