"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Maps and Views Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Maps and Views
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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 Maps and Views They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Maps and Views
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Maps and Views Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "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 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Maps and Views
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Maps and Views Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Maps and Views
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms 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 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Maps and Views He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Maps and Views
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Maps and Views Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Maps and Views
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Maps and Views It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Maps and Views Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Maps and Views In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Maps and Views
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Maps and Views A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views
