The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Maps and Views If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Maps and Views
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Maps and Views "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Maps and Views
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Maps and Views "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Maps and Views
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Maps and Views "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 "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, My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Maps and Views
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Maps and Views "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Maps and Views
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Maps and Views Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Maps and Views
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Maps and Views To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
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We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Maps and Views Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Maps and Views Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Maps and Views
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Maps and Views I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Maps and Views
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Maps and Views "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Maps and Views
