I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Lodging The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lodging
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lodging Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Lodging
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Lodging Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Lodging
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Lodging Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Lodging
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Lodging He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Lodging
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:
and in that The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Lodging We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 Lodging
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Lodging If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Lodging
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Lodging Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Lodging
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "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) Lodging The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Lodging
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Lodging The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Lodging
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams 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 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Lodging "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Lodging
