House Quotes

"Let me ask a question, you can take a guess,
who holds the key to your happiness?
Is your life up to you or does fate have it planned?
If you're gonna do it....do....it.....grand."
- theme from an all but forgotten tv show named Grand -

"This life's a hollow bubble, don't you know?
Just a painted piece of twouble, don't you know?
We come to earth to cwy, we gwow oldeh and we sigh,
oldeh still, and then we die! Don't you know?"
- Edmund Vance Cooke -

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody,
come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -

"The urban workaday economy would be unthinkable without coffee."
- Irene Fizer -

"Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it.
Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside."
- O. Henry -

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;
it is easy in solitude to live after our own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

"The will to do, the soul to dare."
- Sir Walter Scott -

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice
to become a moral slob."
- William F. Buckley -

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell -

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
- Thomas Mann -

"A bad past is no excuse for a bad present."
- Anonymous -

"All you need to be a net junkie is a skull jack, an IV and a catheter."
- Nan Dibble -

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories."
- Stanislaw J. Lec -

"People demand freedom of speech
to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard -

"Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease."
- John Dryden -

"I don't know what I'm supposed to do....doesn't God know I'm dense?"
- Minor Sage -

"None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

"A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds."
- Nursery Rhyme - A Man of Words and Not of Deeds -

"There's a crack, there's a crack in everything;
that's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen -

"It's easy to be independent when you've got money.
But to be independent when you haven't got a thing
- that's the Lord's test."
- Mahalia Jackson -

"The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither."
- Thomas Jefferson -

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein -

"Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee:
rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee."
- Proverbs 9:8 -

Recipe for coffee:

Noir comme le diable, Chaud comme l'enfer, Pur comme un ange, Doux comme l'amour

Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love

- Charles Talleyrand -

"I need coffee."     "Is that my coffee?"
- Michael Stipe -