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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Lodging "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Lodging
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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Lodging The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams 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 "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) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Lodging Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Lodging
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Lodging How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Lodging
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Lodging
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Lodging It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Lodging
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lodging There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Lodging
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 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 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Lodging An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Lodging
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Lodging Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Lodging
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Lodging
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Lodging True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Lodging
