"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Accommodation The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Accommodation
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "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 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Accommodation Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Accommodation
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Accommodation "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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Accommodation
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Accommodation A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Accommodation
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Accommodation Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Accommodation
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Accommodation Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Accommodation
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Accommodation A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) 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.
-- Crow Accommodation "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Accommodation
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Accommodation He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Accommodation
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Accommodation Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Accommodation
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Accommodation Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Accommodation
