"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Lodging
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Lodging Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Lodging
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Lodging "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Lodging
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Lodging "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Lodging
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Lodging I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Lodging
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Lodging Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Lodging
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Lodging We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Lodging There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Lodging "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Lodging
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Lodging Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin 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 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Lodging
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Lodging The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon 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 Lodging
