We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Maps and Views "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Maps and Views
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Maps and Views It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress 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 Maps and Views The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Maps and Views
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Maps and Views
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Maps and Views I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Maps and Views
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Maps and Views
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Maps and Views It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) 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 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Maps and Views No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Maps and Views
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Maps and Views
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Maps and Views Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Maps and Views
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere 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 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Maps and Views A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- 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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Maps and Views
