"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) What's new? Most of my wife. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Maps and Views Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Maps and Views
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Maps and Views The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Maps and Views
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Maps and Views In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Maps and Views We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Maps and Views "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde 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 Maps and Views
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Maps and Views If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Maps and Views
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Maps and Views
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Maps and Views
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Maps and Views
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Maps and Views Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Maps and Views
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