The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Lodging When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Lodging
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Lodging I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Lodging
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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. "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) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Lodging "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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Lodging
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Lodging A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Lodging
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Lodging Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Lodging
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Lodging The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Lodging
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Lodging Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Lodging
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Lodging Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Lodging
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Lodging When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Lodging
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Lodging And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "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) Lodging A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Lodging
