Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Accommodation Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time 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 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Accommodation
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Accommodation The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Accommodation
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Accommodation In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Accommodation
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Accommodation I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Accommodation
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Accommodation "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "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) Accommodation
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Accommodation You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) 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 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Accommodation "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Accommodation
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "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) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Accommodation The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Accommodation
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Accommodation Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Accommodation
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 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Accommodation The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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 Accommodation
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Accommodation Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Accommodation
