"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Lodging Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Lodging Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Lodging
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Lodging If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Lodging
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Lodging It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Lodging
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Lodging Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Lodging
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves 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 Lodging Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Lodging
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Lodging Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Lodging
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Lodging Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Lodging
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Lodging Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Lodging
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) 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 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Lodging Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Lodging
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Lodging I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Lodging
