I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 Maps and Views "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Maps and Views
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Maps and Views I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Maps and Views
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Maps and Views
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Maps and Views "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Maps and Views
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Maps and Views "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Maps and Views
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Maps and Views A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Maps and Views
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Maps and Views When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Maps and Views
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Maps and Views That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Maps and Views
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Maps and Views "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Maps and Views
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Maps and Views "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Maps and Views
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Maps and Views Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "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 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Maps and Views
