"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Bed and Breakfast 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 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Bed and Breakfast
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Bed and Breakfast "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Bed and Breakfast
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Bed and Breakfast Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Bed and Breakfast
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Bed and Breakfast "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Bed and Breakfast
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Bed and Breakfast One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Bed and Breakfast
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Bed and Breakfast An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Bed and Breakfast
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Bed and Breakfast Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Bed and Breakfast
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Bed and Breakfast Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Bed and Breakfast
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Bed and Breakfast Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Bed and Breakfast
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Bed and Breakfast Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Bed and Breakfast
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence 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 It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown 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 Bed and Breakfast Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Bed and Breakfast
