Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Lodging The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Lodging
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Lodging The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Lodging
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George 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 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Lodging 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Lodging Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Lodging
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lodging cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Lodging
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Lodging The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Lodging
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Lodging I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Lodging
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Lodging If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Lodging "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Lodging
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Lodging May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Lodging All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Lodging
