Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Lodging In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Lodging
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Lodging "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Lodging
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Lodging After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Lodging To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Lodging
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Lodging I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Lodging
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Lodging "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Lodging
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Lodging "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Lodging
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Lodging Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Lodging
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Lodging The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Lodging
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Lodging Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "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
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Lodging 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 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Lodging
