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blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "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) 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Accommodation Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "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) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Accommodation The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Accommodation
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Accommodation They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Accommodation
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Accommodation Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Accommodation
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Accommodation "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Accommodation
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Accommodation Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Accommodation
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Accommodation Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Accommodation
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Accommodation
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Accommodation For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Accommodation
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Accommodation The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Accommodation
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Accommodation Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer 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. Accommodation
