the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Maze "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Maze
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle 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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Maze I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Maze
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Maze Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Maze
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Maze Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Maze
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Maze I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Maze
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "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) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Maze If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Maze
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Maze The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Maze
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Maze Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Maze
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress 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. Maze The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "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) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Maze
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Maze Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Maze
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Maze "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Maze