There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost 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 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Maps and Views And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Maps and Views
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Maps and Views A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Maps and Views
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Maps and Views Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Maps and Views
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Maps and Views Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Maps and Views
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Maps and Views
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Maps and Views "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Maps and Views
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Maps and Views
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Maps and Views Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Maps and Views
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal 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 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Maps and Views "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Maps and Views
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Maps and Views The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp 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 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Maps and Views
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Maps and Views
