If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 Lodging I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Lodging
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Lodging Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Lodging
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Lodging "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Lodging
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Lodging My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Lodging
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Lodging "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Lodging
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Lodging "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "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 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Lodging
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Lodging Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Lodging
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Lodging Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "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 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Lodging
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Lodging Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Lodging
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "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 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Lodging
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Lodging Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Lodging
