Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 Lodging
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "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) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Lodging
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Lodging
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lodging
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Lodging
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Lodging He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Lodging
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Lodging When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "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) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Lodging Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Lodging
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Lodging Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Lodging
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Lodging Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Lodging
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package 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 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Lodging Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Lodging
