A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Accommodation That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Accommodation
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Accommodation
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Accommodation 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Accommodation
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Accommodation In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Accommodation
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Accommodation There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Accommodation
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Accommodation blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Accommodation
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Accommodation "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Accommodation A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Accommodation Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Accommodation "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
