"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) 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 Lodging Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Lodging
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 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Lodging Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Lodging
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Lodging The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lodging
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Lodging "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Lodging
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Lodging Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lodging
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Lodging I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Lodging
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Lodging "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Lodging Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Lodging
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Lodging The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Lodging
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Lodging "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Lodging
