Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Lodging 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Lodging
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Lodging I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Lodging The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Lodging
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Lodging Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Lodging
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Lodging "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Lodging
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Lodging "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Lodging Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
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 The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Lodging True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Lodging
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lodging "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Lodging
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Lodging
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Lodging Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Lodging
