Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Lodging
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Lodging
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Lodging Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Lodging "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Lodging
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Lodging Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon 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 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Lodging
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Lodging The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Lodging
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lodging
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Unha The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Lodging
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Lodging To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Lodging
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Lodging Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Lodging Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen 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 Lodging
