"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Lodging Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Lodging
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Lodging Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Lodging
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Lodging Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Lodging
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Lodging "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Lodging
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Lodging "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Lodging
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Lodging "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Lodging
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Lodging "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Lodging
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Lodging Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "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.) 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
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Lodging The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Lodging
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Lodging The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich 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 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Lodging
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Lodging One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Lodging
