There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Lodging Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lodging
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Lodging Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Lodging
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Lodging My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Lodging
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Lodging "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Lodging
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Lodging Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Lodging
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Lodging Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Lodging
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Lodging Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Lodging
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Lodging "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Lodging
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Lodging
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Lodging then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Lodging
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Lodging A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Lodging
