Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Lodging I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Lodging
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Lodging
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Lodging A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Lodging
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Lodging We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Lodging
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Lodging
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Lodging Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Lodging
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Lodging "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Lodging
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lodging "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Lodging
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lodging You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Lodging
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Lodging Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Lodging
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Lodging "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Lodging
