Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Lodging
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Lodging Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Lodging
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Lodging If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Lodging
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Lodging "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) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Lodging
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Lodging Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Lodging
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "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) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Lodging Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Lodging
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Lodging Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Lodging
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Lodging "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Lodging
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Lodging "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Lodging
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Lodging 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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Lodging
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Lodging Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Lodging
