"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Man and wife make one fool. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Accommodation Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Accommodation
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Accommodation If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Accommodation "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Accommodation
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Accommodation Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Accommodation
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Accommodation I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Accommodation
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "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) Accommodation "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Accommodation
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Accommodation Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Accommodation
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Accommodation "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Accommodation
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Accommodation If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Accommodation
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Accommodation You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Accommodation
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Accommodation "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Accommodation
