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If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Accommodation "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) 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 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Accommodation
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie 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 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 Accommodation All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Accommodation
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Accommodation To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 Accommodation
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Accommodation Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Accommodation
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha 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 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Anyway, 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,
ign Accommodation If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Accommodation
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Accommodation Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Accommodation
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Accommodation "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Accommodation
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Accommodation "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Accommodation
"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) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Accommodation I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Accommodation
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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, "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) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Accommodation If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Accommodation
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Accommodation I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
