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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Accommodation I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Accommodation
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Accommodation "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai 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 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Accommodation
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Accommodation "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Accommodation
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Accommodation I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Accommodation
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill May you never leave your marriage alive. Accommodation This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin My other wife is beautiful. Accommodation
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Accommodation There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Accommodation Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Accommodation
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin My other wife is beautiful. Accommodation Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Accommodation
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Accommodation The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Accommodation
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Accommodation Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Accommodation When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
