Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "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 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Lodging Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Lodging
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lodging My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Lodging
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Lodging There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Lodging
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Lodging Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Lodging My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Lodging
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Lodging
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Lodging "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Lodging
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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" Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Lodging The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 Lodging
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Lodging
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Lodging The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Lodging
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Lodging "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Lodging
