"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous 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 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Accommodation 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 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Accommodation
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Accommodation Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Accommodation
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Accommodation Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Accommodation
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Accommodation Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Accommodation
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Accommodation
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Accommodation >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Accommodation That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Accommodation
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Accommodation To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Accommodation Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Accommodation
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Accommodation I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Accommodation
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Accommodation I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Accommodation
