I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hotels Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Hotels
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Hotels Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Hotels
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Hotels
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Hotels I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Hotels
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Hotels You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Hotels
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Hotels "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Hotels
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) 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 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Hotels LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Hotels
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Hotels "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Hotels
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Hotels The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Hotels
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hotels To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Hotels
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Hotels Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Hotels
