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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Maps and Views We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Maps and Views
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Maps and Views Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Maps and Views
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Maps and Views "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Maps and Views
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Maps and Views The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Maps and Views
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Maps and Views Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Maps and Views When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Maps and Views Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Maps and Views
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Maps and Views Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Maps and Views
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken 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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "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 Maps and Views Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Maps and Views
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Maps and Views Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Maps and Views Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Maps and Views
