Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lodging
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Lodging Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Lodging
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Lodging Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Lodging
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Lodging "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Lodging
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Lodging
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Lodging He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lodging
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "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) "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) Lodging Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Lodging
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Lodging Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Lodging
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Lodging 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" In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Lodging
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." 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
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Lodging
