What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Accommodation Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Accommodation
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Accommodation Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Accommodation
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Accommodation It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Accommodation
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Accommodation "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Accommodation
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Accommodation A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Accommodation
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Accommodation A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Accommodation
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Accommodation Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Accommodation In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Accommodation
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Accommodation We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Accommodation
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Accommodation "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Accommodation
