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That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric 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 believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Accommodation "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Accommodation
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Accommodation Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Accommodation
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Accommodation 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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Accommodation
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Accommodation Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Accommodation
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Accommodation "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Accommodation
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Accommodation No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Accommodation
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Accommodation
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Accommodation Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "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 Accommodation Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Accommodation
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Accommodation "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation
