Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Hotels "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Epperson's law:
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-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Hotels
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Hotels Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Hotels
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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-- Lord Dewar Hotels
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope Hotels Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Hotels
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus Hotels "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Hotels
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Hotels Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
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-- Judith Viorst Hotels
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Hotels Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Hotels
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Hotels Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
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-- Anonymous He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Hotels
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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 Hotels Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Hotels
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Hotels If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Hotels
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Hotels There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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