May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Lodging then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Lodging
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Lodging "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Lodging
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Lodging Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Lodging
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Lodging "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Lodging Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Lodging
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Lodging A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Lodging If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Lodging
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Lodging In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Lodging
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Lodging The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lodging
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Lodging Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Lodging
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Lodging 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 was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Lodging
