The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Lodging What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Lodging Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Lodging
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Lodging We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Lodging
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Lodging Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Lodging
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Lodging "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Lodging
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Lodging 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Lodging
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Lodging
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Lodging
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Lodging "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lodging
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Lodging
