"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to 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 Lodging Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Lodging
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Lodging "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Lodging
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Lodging Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Lodging
"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) 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 A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Lodging Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Lodging
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Lodging This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Lodging
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Lodging Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Lodging
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Lodging Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Lodging
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Lodging
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 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Lodging Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Lodging
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Lodging There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Lodging
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Lodging Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Lodging
