Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Lodging Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Lodging
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Lodging I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Lodging
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Lodging No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Lodging
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Lodging A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Lodging
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "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) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Lodging "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Lodging
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Lodging In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Lodging
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Lodging I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Lodging
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Lodging "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Lodging
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Lodging Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Lodging You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "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) Lodging
