Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Lodging I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Lodging
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lodging "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Lodging
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Lodging If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Lodging
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Lodging Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. 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 Lodging A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Lodging
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Lodging They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Lodging
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Lodging "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Lodging
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Lodging "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight May you never leave your marriage alive. Lodging "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Lodging
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 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Lodging After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Lodging
