"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Maps and Views I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Maps and Views
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Maps and Views He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Maps and Views
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Maps and Views He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Maps and Views
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Maps and Views "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Maps and Views
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Maps and Views And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Maps and Views
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "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 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Maps and Views Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Maps and Views
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Maps and Views There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Maps and Views
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Maps and Views
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Maps and Views "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Maps and Views
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Maps and Views Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "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) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Maps and Views
