"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Lodging
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Lodging Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Lodging
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Lodging 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 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Lodging
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Lodging
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Lodging If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner 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.
-- Anonymous "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) 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 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Lodging A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Lodging
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch 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 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Lodging
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Lodging The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Lodging
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Lodging "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Lodging
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Lodging
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Lodging You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
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