"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Lodging My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Lodging "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Lodging "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Lodging
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "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) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Lodging I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Lodging Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Lodging
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Lodging "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Lodging
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Lodging "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Lodging
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Lodging It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Lodging
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Lodging Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Lodging
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Lodging Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Lodging
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Lodging They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Lodging
