A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Lodging "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Lodging
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Lodging Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Lodging
"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) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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
married By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Lodging A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Lodging
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Lodging "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Lodging
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lodging Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Lodging
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Lodging
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Lodging During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Lodging
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Lodging "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Lodging
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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Lodging Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Lodging
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Lodging An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Lodging Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Lodging
