Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Lodging It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "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
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Lodging Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Lodging
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Lodging Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Lodging
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Lodging The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Lodging
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lodging What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Lodging
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "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 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Lodging If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Lodging
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Lodging
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Lodging "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Lodging
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Lodging After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Lodging
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Lodging Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lodging
