I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Accommodation "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Accommodation
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Accommodation Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Accommodation "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison What's new? Most of my wife. Accommodation
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Accommodation The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Accommodation Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Accommodation
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Accommodation I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Accommodation
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Accommodation
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying 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.
-- Crowf "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Accommodation If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Accommodation
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Accommodation Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Accommodation
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Accommodation The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Accommodation
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Accommodation In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Accommodation
