Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Lodging Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Lodging
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Lodging A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Lodging
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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, The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Lodging
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "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) Lodging If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Lodging
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Lodging
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lodging If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Lodging
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Lodging Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 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 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Lodging
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Lodging blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Lodging
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Lodging Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lodging
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Lodging "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Lodging
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Lodging When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Lodging
