"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "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 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Lodging "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Lodging
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Lodging
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Lodging He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Lodging
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Lodging The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Lodging
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Lodging "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Lodging Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Lodging
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Lodging
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Lodging You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Lodging
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Lodging Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Lodging
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Lodging He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Lodging
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Lodging I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Lodging
