In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Accommodation Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Accommodation
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Accommodation He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Accommodation
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Accommodation Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 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 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Accommodation
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Accommodation We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Accommodation
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Accommodation A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Accommodation
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Accommodation I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Accommodation
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Accommodation If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Accommodation
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Accommodation
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Accommodation Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Accommodation
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Accommodation "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Accommodation
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Accommodation Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Accommodation
