"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Lodging Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Lodging
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Lodging I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Lodging
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Lodging Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Lodging
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen 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 Nietzsche Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Lodging "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Lodging In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 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 Lodging
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Lodging In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Lodging
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Lodging Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Lodging
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Lodging Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Lodging It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Lodging
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Lodging Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Lodging
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Lodging 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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Lodging
