Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Lodging The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Lodging
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Lodging It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Lodging
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Lodging The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Lodging
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Lodging He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Lodging
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Lodging Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Lodging
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Lodging Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Lodging
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J 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 Lodging Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Lodging In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Lodging
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Lodging "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Lodging
