To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Hotels Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Hotels
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-- PARKINSON'S LAW She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Hotels Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hotels
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Hotels "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
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-- Paul Dirac "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels
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-- Helen Giangregorio "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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-- Mark Twain Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Hotels
My other wife is beautiful. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hotels Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
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"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hotels A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Hotels
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Hotels You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Hotels
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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- Buckminster Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Hotels My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Hotels
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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Hotels "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Hotels
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Hotels When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Hotels
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Hotels I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
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-- Bette Davis "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Hotels
