Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Maps and Views I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Maps and Views
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Maps and Views No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Maps and Views
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Maps and Views They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Maps and Views
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Maps and Views "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Maps and Views
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Maps and Views
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Maps and Views Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Maps and Views
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Maps and Views By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Maps and Views
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Maps and Views There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Maps and Views
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Maps and Views I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Maps and Views
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views
