He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Maps and Views If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Maps and Views
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Maps and Views "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Maps and Views
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson 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 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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Maps and Views "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Maps and Views
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Maps and Views Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Maps and Views
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Maps and Views
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maps and Views To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Maps and Views
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Maps and Views Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Maps and Views
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Maps and Views If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Maps and Views
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Maps and Views It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Maps and Views Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Maps and Views
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James 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 democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Maps and Views
