Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Guesthouses There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Guesthouses
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Guesthouses A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy Guesthouses
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Guesthouses Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Guesthouses
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Guesthouses May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Guesthouses
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Guesthouses All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Guesthouses
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Guesthouses "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Guesthouses
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Guesthouses Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Guesthouses
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guesthouses "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Guesthouses
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Guesthouses "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Guesthouses
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Guesthouses "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Guesthouses
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Guesthouses "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Guesthouses
