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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Lodging "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Lodging Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Lodging
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 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 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 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Lodging
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Lodging Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Lodging
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 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Lodging "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Lodging
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Lodging "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Lodging
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Lodging Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Lodging
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Lodging Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Lodging
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Lodging "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) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Lodging
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Lodging Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Lodging
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Lodging "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Lodging
