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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Accommodation "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Accommodation
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Accommodation "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Accommodation
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Accommodation "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Accommodation
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Accommodation Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Accommodation
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Accommodation "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Accommodation
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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Accommodation I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Accommodation
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Accommodation May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Accommodation
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Accommodation
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars 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 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Accommodation The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Accommodation I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Accommodation
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Accommodation The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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 substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
