As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Bed and Breakfast I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Bed and Breakfast
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Bed and Breakfast The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Bed and Breakfast
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Bed and Breakfast This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Bed and Breakfast
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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Bed and Breakfast The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Bed and Breakfast
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Bed and Breakfast There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Bed and Breakfast
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Bed and Breakfast 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Bed and Breakfast
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Bed and Breakfast What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Bed and Breakfast
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bed and Breakfast Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Bed and Breakfast
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Bed and Breakfast Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Bed and Breakfast
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Bed and Breakfast If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bed and Breakfast
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Bed and Breakfast Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Bed and Breakfast
