As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Lodging People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Lodging "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Lodging
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Lodging
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Lodging In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Lodging
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Lodging No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Lodging
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 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Lodging "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Lodging
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Lodging Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Lodging
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Lodging Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Lodging And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Lodging
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 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 I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Lodging "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Lodging
