"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Maps and Views "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Maps and Views
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Maps and Views Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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 Maps and Views
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Maps and Views
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Maps and Views Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Maps and Views
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Maps and Views Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Maps and Views
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg 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 Maps and Views The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maps and Views The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Maps and Views
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Maps and Views Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Maps and Views
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Maps and Views
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Maps and Views I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Maps and Views
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Maps and Views Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Maps and Views
