MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Accommodation The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger 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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Accommodation The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Accommodation
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Accommodation Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Accommodation
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Accommodation "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "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 We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Accommodation
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Accommodation
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Accommodation Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Accommodation
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Accommodation Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Accommodation
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Accommodation "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Accommodation
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Accommodation He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Accommodation
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Accommodation "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Accommodation
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Accommodation There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Accommodation
