That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Accommodation If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Accommodation
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Accommodation Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Accommodation
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Accommodation "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Accommodation
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Accommodation You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Accommodation
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Accommodation If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Accommodation
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Accommodation Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 Accommodation Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Accommodation
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Accommodation The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Accommodation
"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 have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Accommodation Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Accommodation
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Accommodation Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Accommodation
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Accommodation Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Accommodation
