Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Accommodation We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Accommodation When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Accommodation
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Accommodation An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Accommodation
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Accommodation
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Accommodation Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Accommodation Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Accommodation
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Accommodation If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Accommodation
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Accommodation 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 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Accommodation
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Accommodation One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Accommodation
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Accommodation
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Accommodation When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "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." Accommodation
