"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Maps and Views I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Maps and Views
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Maps and Views I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Maps and Views
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Maps and Views Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Maps and Views
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Maps and Views A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Maps and Views It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Maps and Views
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Maps and Views Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Maps and Views
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash 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 Maps and Views When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Maps and Views
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Maps and Views "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Maps and Views
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Maps and Views "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis 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) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Maps and Views "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Maps and Views
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maps and Views Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Maps and Views
