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, People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Lodging Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Lodging
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Lodging The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Lodging
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Lodging We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Lodging
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Lodging The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Lodging
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Lodging We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Lodging
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Lodging "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Lodging
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Lodging People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Lodging
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Lodging Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Lodging
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Lodging Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Lodging If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry 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 Lodging
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Lodging "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Lodging
