Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Accommodation Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Accommodation "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Accommodation
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Accommodation 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Accommodation
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 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 Accommodation
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson What's new? Most of my wife. Accommodation Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Accommodation
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Accommodation Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Accommodation
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Accommodation The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Accommodation
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "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 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Accommodation
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Accommodation Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Accommodation Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Accommodation
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Accommodation Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Accommodation
