"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Accommodation "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Accommodation Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Accommodation
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Accommodation "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Accommodation Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Accommodation
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Accommodation
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Accommodation
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Accommodation Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Accommodation
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Accommodation Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Accommodation
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Accommodation In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Accommodation
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Accommodation Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Accommodation
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Accommodation
