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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Lodging I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Lodging
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 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Lodging 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Lodging
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Lodging Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "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 Lodging
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Lodging The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Lodging
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Lodging They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Lodging
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Lodging "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Lodging
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Lodging Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Lodging
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Lodging "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Lodging
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard Lodging Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "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 Lodging
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Lodging How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lodging
"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) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Lodging A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Lodging
