Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Lodging Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Lodging
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Lodging He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Lodging
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Lodging Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Lodging
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "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) Lodging God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Lodging
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Lodging He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) 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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa 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 Lodging Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Lodging
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Lodging I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Lodging
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Lodging "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Lodging
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Lodging Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Lodging
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Lodging Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Lodging
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Lodging My other wife is beautiful. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Lodging
