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"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Lodging I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Lodging
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Lodging The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Lodging
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 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Lodging "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Lodging
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Lodging Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Lodging
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph 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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Lodging Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Lodging
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Lodging "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "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) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Lodging
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lodging Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Lodging
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Lodging "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Lodging
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Lodging Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B 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 Lodging
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Lodging
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Lodging
