The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "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) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Accommodation Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Accommodation
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Accommodation Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Accommodation "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Accommodation
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Accommodation One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Accommodation
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 Accommodation It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Accommodation
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Accommodation To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Accommodation
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa 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 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Accommodation The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Accommodation
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Accommodation If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Accommodation
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Accommodation I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Accommodation Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Accommodation
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- 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 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Accommodation Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Accommodation
