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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hospitality There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Hospitality
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Hospitality Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Hospitality
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Hospitality An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Hospitality
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Hospitality The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Hospitality
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Hospitality "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Hospitality
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Hospitality Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Hospitality
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Hospitality 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 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 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Hospitality
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Hospitality Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Hospitality
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Hospitality Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Hospitality
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Hospitality Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Hospitality
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings May you never leave your marriage alive. Hospitality I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Hospitality
