Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Accommodation "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Accommodation
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Accommodation He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Accommodation
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Accommodation We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Accommodation
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Accommodation The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Accommodation
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Accommodation "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Accommodation
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 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 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Accommodation
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" 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 Accommodation The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Accommodation
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Accommodation "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Accommodation
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Accommodation Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Accommodation
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Accommodation Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Accommodation
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Accommodation "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Accommodation
