Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Hotels Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Hotels
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Hotels There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Hotels
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Hotels The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Hotels
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Hotels Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Hotels
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Hotels "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Hotels
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Hotels Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Hotels
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Hotels If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Hotels
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "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 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Hotels Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels
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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Hotels When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hotels
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Hotels The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Hotels
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Hotels We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Hotels
