"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Maps and Views We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Maps and Views
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Maps and Views "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Maps and Views
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Maps and Views "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Maps and Views
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Maps and Views God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Maps and Views
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey 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 Maps and Views "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Maps and Views
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Maps and Views Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Maps and Views
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Maps and Views I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "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) Maps and Views
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Maps and Views Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost 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 Maps and Views
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Maps and Views It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Maps and Views
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Maps and Views blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Maps and Views
