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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Accommodation "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Accommodation
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Accommodation When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Accommodation There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "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) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Accommodation
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Accommodation
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Accommodation No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Accommodation
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Accommodation Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Accommodation "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Accommodation
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Accommodation The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Accommodation
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Accommodation We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Accommodation
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Accommodation A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
