It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Lodging A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Lodging
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. 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 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Lodging Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Lodging
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Lodging A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Lodging
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "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 Lodging It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Lodging We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Lodging
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Lodging Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Lodging
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Lodging Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Lodging Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Lodging
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Lodging Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Lodging
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Lodging Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "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) Lodging
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Lodging Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Lodging
