The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Accommodation My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Accommodation
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 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Accommodation "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Accommodation Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Accommodation
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Accommodation 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 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Accommodation Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Accommodation
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 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 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Accommodation "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Accommodation
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Accommodation How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Accommodation
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Accommodation "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Accommodation
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Accommodation "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Accommodation
