The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lodging "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lodging
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lodging What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lodging
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick What's new? Most of my wife. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Lodging The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Lodging A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Lodging
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Lodging With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Lodging
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Lodging "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Lodging Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Lodging
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lodging All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Lodging
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lodging The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Lodging
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Lodging Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lodging
