Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Lodging "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "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) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Lodging
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Lodging Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Lodging There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Lodging
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Lodging The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Lodging
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) Lodging "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Lodging
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Lodging The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Lodging Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Lodging
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Lodging "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Lodging
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Lodging First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Lodging
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Lodging If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Lodging
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Lodging "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Lodging
