Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Lodging For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Lodging
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Lodging I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
"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." There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Lodging Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lodging
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Lodging Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Lodging "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Lodging
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Lodging
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Lodging How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Lodging
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Lodging I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Lodging
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Lodging Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Lodging
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Lodging A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Lodging
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Lodging "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Lodging
