"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Hostels I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Hostels
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Hostels My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Hostels
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Hostels Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Hostels
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Hostels 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? My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Hostels
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Hostels Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Hostels
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Hostels "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Hostels
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Hostels "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Hostels
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Hostels "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hostels
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld What's new? Most of my wife. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Hostels I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Hostels
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Hostels The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Hostels
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Hostels If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Hostels
