When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Lodging "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Lodging
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Lodging We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Lodging
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Lodging For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Lodging Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Lodging
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Lodging When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lodging
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Lodging He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Lodging
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Lodging The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Lodging
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Lodging We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Lodging
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Lodging
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Lodging Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Lodging
