"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Hotels "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Hotels
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Hotels My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Hotels
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Hotels Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- David Bissonette The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Hotels
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe 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 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Hotels "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Hotels All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Hotels
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Hotels Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "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) Hotels
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Hotels Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Hotels
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
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-- Sioux Indian Prayer I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Hotels "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) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Hotels
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Hotels Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Hotels
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Hotels There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Hotels
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Hotels The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels
