Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Lodging The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Lodging
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Lodging Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "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
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Lodging Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Lodging
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Lodging A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Lodging
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Lodging In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Lodging
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Lodging "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Lodging
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Lodging If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Lodging
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Lodging
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Lodging The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Lodging
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Lodging Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Lodging
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Lodging The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Lodging
