To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Accommodation
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Accommodation
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Accommodation In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Accommodation
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Accommodation The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Accommodation
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Accommodation 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 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz 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
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Accommodation
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Accommodation My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Accommodation
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Accommodation
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Accommodation The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce 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 Accommodation Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Accommodation
