One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Accommodation Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Accommodation
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Accommodation "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Accommodation
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Accommodation It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Accommodation
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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Accommodation If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Accommodation Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Accommodation
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Accommodation The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Accommodation
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Accommodation
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Accommodation 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 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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Accommodation
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "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) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Accommodation Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Accommodation
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Accommodation To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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