Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Lodging The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Lodging
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Lodging Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Lodging
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "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) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Lodging "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Lodging
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Lodging A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Lodging
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Lodging No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lodging
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Lodging 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 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Lodging
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Lodging If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Lodging
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Lodging I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Lodging
"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 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Lodging "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Lodging
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Lodging Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Lodging
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Lodging He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Lodging
