"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Accommodation If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Accommodation
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Accommodation There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Accommodation
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Accommodation Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Accommodation
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Accommodation During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Accommodation
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Accommodation "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Accommodation
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Accommodation "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Accommodation
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Accommodation "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Accommodation
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Accommodation There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Accommodation
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Accommodation Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "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.) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Accommodation
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Accommodation Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Accommodation
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Accommodation Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Accommodation
