Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Lodging "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Lodging
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Lodging If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Lodging
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Lodging 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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Lodging
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
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blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Lodging He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Lodging
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Lodging And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) 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 Lodging
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Lodging
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Lodging Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Lodging
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Lodging If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Lodging
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Lodging "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) .. 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 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 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Lodging You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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