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If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Accommodation
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Accommodation The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Accommodation
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Accommodation Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Accommodation
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Accommodation A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Accommodation
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Accommodation Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Accommodation
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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 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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Accommodation The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Accommodation
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Accommodation "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Accommodation
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "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 Accommodation History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Accommodation
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Accommodation The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Accommodation
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Accommodation The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Accommodation
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Accommodation
