"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Hospitality The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Hospitality
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Hospitality I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Hospitality
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Hospitality That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Hospitality
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Hospitality "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Hospitality
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hospitality The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Hospitality
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Hospitality Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Hospitality
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Hospitality "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Hospitality
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Hospitality "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Hospitality
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Hospitality Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Hospitality
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 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" My other wife is beautiful. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hospitality There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 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 Hospitality
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Hospitality "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 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 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Hospitality
