The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Accommodation I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Accommodation
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Accommodation Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Accommodation
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Accommodation I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Accommodation
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Accommodation "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Accommodation
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Accommodation Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Accommodation
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Accommodation Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Accommodation
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Accommodation This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Accommodation Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Accommodation
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Accommodation As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Accommodation
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Accommodation blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Accommodation
