Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Lodging Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 Lodging
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Lodging your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Lodging
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Man and wife make one fool. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Lodging "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Lodging
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Lodging
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "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 one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Lodging Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Lodging
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lodging Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Lodging
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Lodging Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Lodging We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Lodging
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Lodging "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Lodging
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Lodging
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Lodging A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Lodging
