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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Accommodation We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Accommodation
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Accommodation
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Accommodation If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Accommodation "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 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Accommodation
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Accommodation If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Accommodation
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 Accommodation A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Accommodation
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Accommodation
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Accommodation "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Accommodation
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux 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 we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Accommodation
