Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Lodging Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Lodging
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Lodging My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Lodging Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Lodging
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lodging
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Lodging [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Lodging
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Lodging Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Lodging
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Lodging "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Lodging It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Lodging
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lodging No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Lodging The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Lodging
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Lodging Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
