We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Accommodation The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Accommodation
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "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 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Accommodation "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) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller 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 Accommodation
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Accommodation In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller 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 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Accommodation Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Accommodation
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Accommodation The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Accommodation
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Accommodation No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Accommodation
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Accommodation "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Accommodation
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Accommodation Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Accommodation
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Accommodation "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Accommodation
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Accommodation The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Accommodation
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Accommodation It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Accommodation
