"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Lodging She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Lodging
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Lodging Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Lodging
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Lodging Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Lodging
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Lodging "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) 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 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Lodging Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Lodging
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Lodging And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau 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 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Lodging
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Lodging
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager 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 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Lodging
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Lodging The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Lodging
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Lodging
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Lodging "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Lodging
