We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Lodging Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lodging
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Lodging Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Lodging I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Lodging
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Lodging "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Lodging
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Lodging "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Lodging
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Lodging It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Lodging
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Lodging Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Lodging
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "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 There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Lodging "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Lodging I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Lodging
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Lodging
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "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 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 Lodging Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Lodging
