Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Lodging
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Lodging "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Lodging
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Lodging Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Lodging
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Lodging
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Lodging Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Lodging
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Lodging "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Lodging
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Lodging "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Lodging
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Lodging
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Lodging Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Lodging
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "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) Lodging The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Lodging In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
