Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Lodging The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Lodging
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Lodging "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Lodging
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Lodging Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Lodging
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Lodging The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Lodging
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Lodging Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Lodging
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Lodging Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Lodging
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Lodging During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Lodging Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Lodging
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Lodging Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Lodging
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Lodging "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Lodging
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Lodging Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Lodging
