Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Hotels Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Hotels
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Hotels "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Hotels
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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Hotels Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Hotels
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Hotels Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" 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 Hotels
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Hotels Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Hotels
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Hotels "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Hotels
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Hotels "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Hotels
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Hotels "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Hotels Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Hotels
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Hotels Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Hotels
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Hotels blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Hotels
