The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hotels "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Hotels
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Hotels True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Hotels
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Hotels "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Hotels
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Hotels Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Hotels
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Hotels "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) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Hotels
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Hotels A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hotels
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Hotels blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Hotels
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Hotels In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Hotels
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Hotels "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Hotels
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Hotels The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Hotels
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Hotels If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Hotels
