We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Lodging
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u 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 blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Lodging Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Lodging
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Lodging Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Lodging
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Lodging When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Lodging
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Lodging Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Lodging
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Lodging "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) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Lodging
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Lodging I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Lodging
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Lodging Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lodging
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Lodging Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Lodging
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Lodging Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
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 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Lodging It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Lodging
