They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Accommodation "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Accommodation
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Accommodation In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Accommodation
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Accommodation Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Accommodation
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Accommodation "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Accommodation
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Accommodation
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Accommodation 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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Accommodation
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Accommodation No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Accommodation
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Accommodation "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Accommodation
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Accommodation Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Accommodation
