Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Lodging We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Lodging
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Lodging To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Lodging
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Lodging "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Lodging
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Lodging Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Lodging
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Lodging
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Lodging I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Lodging To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Lodging
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Lodging "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Who, being loved, is poor?
-- 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 I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Lodging
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Lodging A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Lodging
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Lodging Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging
