The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Lodging I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Lodging
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Lodging "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Lodging
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Lodging Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Lodging
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Lodging Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Lodging
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Lodging "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lodging We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Lodging
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Lodging blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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 Lodging
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Lodging Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Lodging
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Lodging A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Lodging
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Lodging
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Lodging "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Lodging
