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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Lodging Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Lodging
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Lodging "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Lodging
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Lodging "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Lodging
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 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Lodging
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Lodging I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Lodging In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Lodging
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Lodging Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Lodging
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Lodging Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Lodging
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Lodging "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Lodging
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Lodging "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Lodging
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Lodging A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Lodging
