It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper 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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Accommodation "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Accommodation
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 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 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Accommodation The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Accommodation
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Accommodation Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Accommodation "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Accommodation
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Accommodation "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Accommodation
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Accommodation A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Accommodation
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Accommodation "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Accommodation
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Accommodation An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Accommodation
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Accommodation "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Accommodation
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Accommodation "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Accommodation
