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"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Lodging Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Lodging
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Lodging blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Lodging
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Lodging "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Lodging
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Lodging We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "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) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Lodging There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Lodging
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Lodging "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali 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) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Lodging The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "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) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Lodging
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Lodging Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Lodging
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Lodging "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Lodging "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Lodging
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Lodging The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Lodging
