Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Hotels 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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hotels
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow 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 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Hotels The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Hotels
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Hotels "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Hotels
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Hotels How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Hotels
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Hotels Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Hotels
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Hotels 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 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Hotels
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Hotels Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Hotels
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Hotels Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Hotels
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Hotels That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Hotels
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Hotels Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hotels
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Hotels 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 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine 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 Hotels
