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Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "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 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Lodging "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Lodging
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "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) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Lodging
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lodging There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Lodging There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Lodging
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Lodging Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Lodging
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Lodging Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley 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 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Lodging
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire 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 Lodging Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Lodging During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Lodging
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Lodging What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Lodging
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Lodging The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Lodging
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Lodging Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Lodging
