"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Lodging Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Lodging
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Lodging "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Lodging
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Lodging "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Lodging
"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) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Lodging We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Lodging
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) 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 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Lodging "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Lodging
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor 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 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Lodging Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Lodging
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 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Lodging I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Lodging
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "... 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) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Lodging The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Lodging
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Lodging I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Lodging
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Lodging My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Lodging
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Lodging Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Lodging
