"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Accommodation "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Accommodation
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Accommodation "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Accommodation
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Accommodation I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Accommodation
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Accommodation Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Accommodation
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Accommodation When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Accommodation
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Accommodation "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Accommodation
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Accommodation There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Accommodation
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Accommodation It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Accommodation
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Accommodation "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Accommodation
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Accommodation The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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 Accommodation
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Accommodation Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Accommodation
