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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Lodging
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Lodging The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Lodging
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer 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 "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Lodging "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Lodging
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Lodging "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Lodging
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Lodging
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Lodging In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer 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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Lodging Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Lodging
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Lodging Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Lodging
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Lodging "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Lodging
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Lodging Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Lodging
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Lodging "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Lodging
