"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lodging I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Lodging
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Lodging Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Lodging
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Lodging Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Lodging The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch 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 Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Lodging
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Lodging We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Lodging
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana 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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Lodging I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Lodging
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Lodging A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Lodging
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Lodging "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Lodging
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Lodging "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Lodging
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Lodging Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Lodging
