Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger 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 Hotels I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Is there life before death?
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise Hotels "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hotels "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Hotels
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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
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-- Lynn "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Hotels Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Unknown history student The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Hotels
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Hotels One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Hotels "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Hotels "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- Agatha Christie "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Hotels
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
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-- G. K. Chesterton Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Hotels "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "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) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Hotels
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Hotels 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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Hotels
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Hotels "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "... 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) Hotels
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Hotels I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "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." Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
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-- Flannery O'Connor Hotels
