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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "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 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Accommodation "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Accommodation
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Accommodation cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Accommodation "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Accommodation
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Accommodation
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Accommodation "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "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) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Accommodation "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Accommodation
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Accommodation We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Accommodation
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Accommodation The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Accommodation
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Accommodation Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "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) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Accommodation
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Accommodation Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Accommodation "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Accommodation