That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Maps and Views In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "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) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Maps and Views
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Maps and Views A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Maps and Views
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Maps and Views Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins 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. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Maps and Views
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "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) Maps and Views "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) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Maps and Views
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Maps and Views
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Maps and Views War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Maps and Views
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Maps and Views "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maps and Views
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "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
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Maps and Views Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb 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 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Maps and Views "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Maps and Views
