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"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Maps and Views "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Maps and Views
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Maps and Views Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Maps and Views
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Maps and Views There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Maps and Views
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Maps and Views In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Maps and Views "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Maps and Views
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maps and Views
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Maps and Views "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Maps and Views
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Maps and Views I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Maps and Views A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Maps and Views
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Maps and Views The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Maps and Views
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Maps and Views "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Maps and Views
