God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Accommodation Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Accommodation
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Accommodation
"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) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Accommodation In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Accommodation
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Accommodation "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Accommodation
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Accommodation "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Accommodation
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "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 person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Accommodation Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "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) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Accommodation UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Accommodation
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Accommodation I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Accommodation "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Accommodation
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Accommodation "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) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Accommodation
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Accommodation "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Accommodation
