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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Maps and Views Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Maps and Views We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Maps and Views The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Maps and Views Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Maps and Views
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Maps and Views "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Maps and Views
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Maps and Views "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Maps and Views
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Maps and Views Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Maps and Views
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Maps and Views Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Maps and Views
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Maps and Views "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Maps and Views
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Maps and Views By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Maps and Views
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Maps and Views "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views
