Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Lodging How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Lodging
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Lodging
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Lodging Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Lodging
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Lodging When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Lodging
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Lodging I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Lodging
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Lodging When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Lodging
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Lodging I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Lodging
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Lodging By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Lodging
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Lodging "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Lodging
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lodging The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Lodging
