If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Lodging Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Lodging
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Lodging If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Lodging
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man and wife make one fool. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Lodging You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Lodging
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Lodging We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Lodging
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Lodging For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Lodging
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "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) Lodging An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Lodging
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Lodging "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Lodging
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Lodging For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Lodging
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Lodging I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Lodging
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Lodging A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Lodging
