It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Lodging "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Lodging
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb 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 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "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) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Lodging Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Lodging
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Lodging It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Lodging There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Lodging
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Lodging Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Lodging
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Lodging "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Lodging
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Lodging The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Lodging We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Lodging
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Lodging "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Lodging
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Lodging "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Lodging
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Lodging Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Lodging
