Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Accommodation I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Accommodation Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy 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 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Accommodation Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Accommodation
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon 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. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Accommodation 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Accommodation
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Accommodation Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Accommodation
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Accommodation Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Accommodation
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Accommodation "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Accommodation
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Accommodation
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Accommodation True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Accommodation
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Accommodation My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Accommodation
