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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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Lodging
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man and wife make one fool. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Lodging The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Lodging
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler 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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Lodging When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Lodging
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Lodging You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Lodging
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Lodging "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Lodging
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. 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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Lodging
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Lodging The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "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 Lodging
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Lodging With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Lodging
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Lodging
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Lodging Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Lodging
