Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Lodging "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Lodging
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lodging "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "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) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Lodging
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Lodging There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Lodging
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) 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 Lodging Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Lodging
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Lodging I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Lodging
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Lodging Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Lodging
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford 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 Lodging 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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Lodging
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Lodging
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Lodging
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Lodging Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Lodging
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "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 A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Lodging Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Lodging
