Luftmadrassen - Cheap backpacker youth hostel - Bed and breakfast at the inner city of Copenhagen.
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lodging Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Lodging
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Lodging "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) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Lodging
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Lodging A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Lodging
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Lodging Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Lodging
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Lodging "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Lodging
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Lodging Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Lodging
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Lodging He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Lodging
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Lodging "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Lodging
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Lodging Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Lodging
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Lodging "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Lodging
"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) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Lodging We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Lodging
