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-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Accommodation Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "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
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Accommodation Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Accommodation
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Accommodation "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Accommodation
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Accommodation 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 Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Accommodation
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Accommodation "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Accommodation ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Accommodation
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Accommodation Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Accommodation
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Accommodation "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Accommodation
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Accommodation Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Accommodation
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Accommodation The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Accommodation
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) 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 Accommodation "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Accommodation
