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 Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Lodging "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Lodging In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "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
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Lodging "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Lodging
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Lodging He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Lodging
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) 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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Lodging
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Lodging When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Lodging
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Lodging His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Lodging
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Lodging If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Lodging
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Lodging "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lodging
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Lodging Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson >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 "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Lodging
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Lodging "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Lodging
