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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Accommodation If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Accommodation
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Accommodation "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Accommodation
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation "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 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Accommodation
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Accommodation Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 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? Man and wife make one fool. Accommodation It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Accommodation
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) 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 The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Accommodation "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Accommodation
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Accommodation Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Accommodation
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "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) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Accommodation Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Accommodation Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve 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 think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Accommodation
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Accommodation No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Accommodation
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Accommodation
