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 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Hotels and Motels Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Hotels and Motels
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Hotels and Motels The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Hotels and Motels
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Hotels and Motels Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Hotels and Motels
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Hotels and Motels Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Hotels and Motels
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Hotels and Motels The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Hotels and Motels
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Hotels and Motels "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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Hotels and Motels
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Hotels and Motels "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "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) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hotels and Motels
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Hotels and Motels Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hotels and Motels
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hotels and Motels "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Hotels and Motels
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "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) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Hotels and Motels "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Hotels and Motels
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Hotels and Motels This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Hotels and Motels
