Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Accommodation Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Accommodation
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Accommodation The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Accommodation "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Accommodation Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Accommodation
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Accommodation
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Accommodation In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Accommodation
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Accommodation English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Accommodation
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Accommodation "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Accommodation
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Accommodation Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Accommodation
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Accommodation It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Accommodation
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner My other wife is beautiful. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Accommodation Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho 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 Accommodation
