And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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.
-- Maps and Views
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Maps and Views I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion 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 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Maps and Views
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Maps and Views
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 Maps and Views Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Maps and Views Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Maps and Views
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Maps and Views Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Maps and Views
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "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, You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Maps and Views The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Maps and Views
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Maps and Views Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Maps and Views
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Maps and Views Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Maps and Views
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Maps and Views
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Maps and Views
