It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Accommodation 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac 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 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Accommodation "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Accommodation
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Accommodation "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Accommodation 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 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Accommodation
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Accommodation My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Accommodation
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Accommodation Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Accommodation 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 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 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Accommodation
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Accommodation Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Accommodation There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Accommodation
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Accommodation Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Accommodation
