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To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Accommodation Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Accommodation
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Accommodation The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) 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 Accommodation
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Accommodation
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Accommodation Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Accommodation
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Accommodation A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Accommodation
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Accommodation "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Accommodation
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Accommodation Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Accommodation
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Accommodation I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Accommodation
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Accommodation "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Accommodation
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Accommodation We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Accommodation Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Accommodation
