UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Accommodation Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Accommodation "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Accommodation
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Accommodation 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 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Accommodation
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Accommodation The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Accommodation
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Accommodation We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "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) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Accommodation "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Accommodation
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Accommodation I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Accommodation
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "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) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Accommodation "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Accommodation
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Accommodation "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Accommodation
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Accommodation Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Accommodation
