A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Hotels Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Hotels
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Hotels One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Hotels
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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 Hotels A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Hotels
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Hotels "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Hotels
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Hotels "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel 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. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Hotels
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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." ( Hotels "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Hotels
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Hotels Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Hotels
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Hotels "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Hotels
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Hotels Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Hotels
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Hotels Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Hotels
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Hotels "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Hotels
