In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Lodging Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Lodging
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Lodging
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Lodging Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "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) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Lodging
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 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Lodging Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Lodging
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. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Lodging I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Lodging
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Lodging "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Lodging Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Lodging
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Lodging If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Lodging
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Lodging Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Lodging
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 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 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 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Lodging We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Lodging
