Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Lodging I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Lodging
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Lodging
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Lodging If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Lodging
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Lodging Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Lodging
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Lodging If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Lodging
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Lodging Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Lodging Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Lodging I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Lodging
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Lodging
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Lodging Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lodging
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Lodging "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 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Lodging
