It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Lodging "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Lodging
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Lodging blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Lodging
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Lodging It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Lodging Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Lodging
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Lodging The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Lodging
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Lodging Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Lodging
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 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 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Lodging "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Lodging
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous 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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Lodging
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Lodging The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Lodging
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Lodging 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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Lodging
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Lodging "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Lodging
