I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Lodging If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "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) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Lodging
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Lodging All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Lodging
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Lodging Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Lodging Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "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) Lodging
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Lodging "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Lodging
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 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Lodging There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Lodging
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Lodging Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Lodging
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Lodging The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Lodging
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Lodging Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Lodging
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Lodging We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 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. Lodging
