Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Lodging If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Lodging
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Lodging The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Lodging
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Lodging "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Lodging
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Lodging Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Lodging
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Lodging The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Lodging
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Lodging You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Lodging
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Lodging "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Lodging
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown 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 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Lodging Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Lodging
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Lodging Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Lodging
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Lodging Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Lodging
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Lodging Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Lodging
