I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Lodging
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lodging Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor 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 The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Lodging
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "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) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Lodging It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Lodging
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Lodging "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Lodging
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Lodging Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Lodging
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Lodging
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Lodging If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Lodging
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Lodging
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Lodging I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Lodging
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Lodging To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume 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 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Lodging
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Lodging "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Lodging
