Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Lodging The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Lodging
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Lodging "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) 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 am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Lodging
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Lodging If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Lodging
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Lodging "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Lodging
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Lodging You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Lodging
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Lodging
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Lodging "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Lodging
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Lodging "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Lodging
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Lodging When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Lodging
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Lodging A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Lodging
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Lodging The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Lodging
