Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Accommodation
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Accommodation For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Accommodation
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Accommodation Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Accommodation
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Accommodation "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Accommodation
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "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) Accommodation "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Accommodation Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa 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 Accommodation
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "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) Accommodation
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Accommodation Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Accommodation
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Accommodation The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Accommodation
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Accommodation There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Accommodation Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Accommodation
