A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Motels What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Motels
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Motels "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Motels
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Motels A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Motels
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Motels The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Motels
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Motels I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Motels
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Motels It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Motels
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Motels "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Motels
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Motels "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Motels
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Motels Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Motels
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Motels I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Motels
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Motels The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Motels
