Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Maps and Views When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Maps and Views
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Maps and Views Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "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
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Maps and Views
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Maps and Views How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Maps and Views All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Maps and Views
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf 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. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Maps and Views
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "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) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Maps and Views "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Maps and Views
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Maps and Views We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Maps and Views
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Maps and Views Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Maps and Views
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Maps and Views No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Maps and Views
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maps and Views Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Maps and Views
