"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Maps and Views The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Maps and Views
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Maps and Views "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Maps and Views
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Maps and Views MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Maps and Views
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Maps and Views
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Maps and Views 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Maps and Views
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Maps and Views "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Maps and Views "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Maps and Views
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Maps and Views I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Maps and Views
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Maps and Views
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Maps and Views You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Maps and Views
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Maps and Views 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 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Maps and Views
