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My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Accommodation "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Accommodation
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Accommodation "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Accommodation
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Accommodation "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Accommodation
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Accommodation The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Accommodation
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Accommodation It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Accommodation
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Accommodation "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) 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
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Accommodation "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Accommodation Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Accommodation
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Accommodation Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "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) Accommodation When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Accommodation
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Accommodation I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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