If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Lodging "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Lodging Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Lodging
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Lodging
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Lodging
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) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Lodging By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Lodging True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Lodging
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Lodging The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Lodging
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Lodging If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? 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 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Lodging Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Lodging
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Lodging
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Lodging "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Lodging
