The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Lodging For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "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 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Lodging
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong 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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Lodging To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Lodging
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Lodging Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Lodging
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Lodging As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Lodging
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Lodging Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Lodging
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words 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 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Lodging Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge 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 Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Lodging
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Lodging 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 Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Lodging
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Lodging My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "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) Lodging
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Lodging I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Lodging
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, 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 Lodging There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Lodging
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Lodging Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Lodging
