If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Lodging They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Lodging
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Lodging She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Lodging
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Lodging
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Lodging The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Lodging
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Lodging Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Lodging I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Lodging
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Lodging If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Lodging
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Lodging It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "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
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Lodging Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Lodging
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Lodging A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Lodging
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Lodging I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Lodging
