Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Lodging Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Lodging
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Lodging "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Lodging
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Lodging I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Lodging
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Lodging 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 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Lodging
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Lodging "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Lodging
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Lodging
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Lodging And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Lodging
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Lodging The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Lodging
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Lodging "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Lodging
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Lodging To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford 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 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Lodging
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Lodging "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Lodging
