Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Lodging A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 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 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Lodging CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Lodging
"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) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Lodging 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 "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) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Lodging
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Lodging "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Lodging
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Lodging Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Lodging
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Lodging I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Lodging
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Lodging His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Lodging
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Lodging An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Lodging
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Lodging
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Lodging "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Lodging
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Lodging "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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
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