They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Lodging Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Lodging
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Lodging I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Lodging
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Lodging Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Lodging
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Lodging Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Lodging
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Lodging ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Lodging
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 To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Lodging Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Lodging
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Lodging Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Lodging
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Lodging Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Lodging
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Lodging You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Lodging
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 Lodging "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Lodging
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lodging Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Lodging
