blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Lodging Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Lodging
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Lodging Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Lodging
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Lodging The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Lodging
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Lodging All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Lodging
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Lodging I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Lodging
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Lodging I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Lodging If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Lodging
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Lodging I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Lodging
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Lodging Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Lodging
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Lodging 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 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Lodging If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Lodging
