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I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Lodging "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Lodging
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Lodging "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) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Lodging
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Lodging
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Lodging A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Lodging I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Lodging
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Lodging You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Lodging I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Lodging
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Lodging A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Lodging
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Lodging A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Lodging
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Lodging Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Lodging
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 "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) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Lodging If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Lodging
