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Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Accommodation I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Accommodation
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Accommodation You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Accommodation They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Accommodation
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Accommodation The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings 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 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Accommodation
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Accommodation "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Accommodation "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Accommodation
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Accommodation I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis 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 Accommodation
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good 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 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Accommodation
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Accommodation
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Marriage is a rest period between romances. Accommodation 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Accommodation If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Accommodation
