Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Lodging You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Lodging Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Lodging
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Lodging Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Lodging
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Lodging The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet 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 Lodging
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Lodging "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Lodging
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Lodging I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Lodging
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Lodging I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Lodging
"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 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Lodging "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Lodging Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Lodging
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Lodging
"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) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Lodging
