"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Accommodation Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Accommodation
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Accommodation Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Accommodation
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Accommodation
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Accommodation Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Accommodation
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Accommodation
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Accommodation I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Accommodation
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Accommodation Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Accommodation
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Accommodation
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Accommodation Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Accommodation My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Accommodation
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Accommodation To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Accommodation
