Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Lodging Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Lodging
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Lodging An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Lodging
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Lodging Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Lodging
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Lodging You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Lodging
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Lodging "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Lodging Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Lodging
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Lodging When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Lodging
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Lodging You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Lodging
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Lodging We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Lodging
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa 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 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Lodging I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Lodging
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Lodging "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Lodging
