If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Accommodation When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 Accommodation
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Accommodation If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Accommodation
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Accommodation Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Accommodation
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) 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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Accommodation Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Accommodation
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Accommodation I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 Accommodation
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Accommodation Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Accommodation
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Accommodation
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Accommodation Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Accommodation
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Accommodation
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Accommodation "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Accommodation
