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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Lodging 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 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Lodging
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Lodging Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Lodging
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Lodging There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Lodging
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Lodging When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Lodging
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Lodging In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Lodging
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers 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 A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Lodging
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Lodging I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Lodging
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Lodging Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Lodging
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Lodging "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Lodging
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Lodging "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) 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 Lodging
