With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead 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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Lodging Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Lodging
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Lodging Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Lodging
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Lodging Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Lodging If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Lodging
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Lodging In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Lodging
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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 blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Lodging
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Lodging I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Lodging
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 To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Lodging "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Lodging
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards 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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "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 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Lodging
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Lodging The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Lodging
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Lodging The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Lodging
