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 don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Lodging A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "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 "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Lodging "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Lodging
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Lodging I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Lodging
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Lodging Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Lodging
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Lodging If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Lodging
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Lodging "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Lodging
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Lodging I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Lodging
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Lodging If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Lodging I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Lodging
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Lodging I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Lodging
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Lodging If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Lodging
