An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 Lodging University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Lodging "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Lodging
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Lodging English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Lodging
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Lodging Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Lodging
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Lodging Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Lodging
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Lodging We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Lodging
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Lodging "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Lodging
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Lodging I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Lodging
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Lodging "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Lodging
