You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Lodging Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lodging
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Lodging The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Lodging
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Lodging "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Lodging
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Lodging I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
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 You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Lodging Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Lodging
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Lodging "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Lodging
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Lodging In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Lodging
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Lodging If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Lodging
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Lodging Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Lodging
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Lodging "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Lodging
