Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Accommodation I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Accommodation
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Accommodation Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Accommodation
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson What's new? Most of my wife. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Accommodation "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Accommodation
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Accommodation We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Accommodation
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Accommodation blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Accommodation
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Accommodation "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Accommodation
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Accommodation "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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Accommodation
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Accommodation Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Accommodation
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Accommodation "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Accommodation
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Accommodation I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Accommodation
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Accommodation blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Accommodation
