"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation "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, Alice in Wonderland Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Accommodation
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Accommodation "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Accommodation
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Accommodation 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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Accommodation
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Accommodation "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Accommodation
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Accommodation
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Accommodation The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Accommodation
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Accommodation I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Accommodation
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Accommodation Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Accommodation
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Accommodation Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Accommodation
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "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) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Accommodation I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Accommodation
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Accommodation There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Accommodation
