The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Lodging Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Lodging
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday 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 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Lodging Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Lodging
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Lodging After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Lodging
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Lodging I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Lodging
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Lodging
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Lodging Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Lodging
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Lodging It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Lodging
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Lodging Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Lodging Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Lodging
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Lodging What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Lodging
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Lodging The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Lodging
