'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Accommodation There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Accommodation
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Accommodation "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Accommodation
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "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) Accommodation Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Accommodation
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) 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 remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Accommodation Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Accommodation
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Accommodation "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) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Accommodation
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Accommodation With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Accommodation First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Accommodation
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Accommodation An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Accommodation
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "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) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Accommodation Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Accommodation
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher 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 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Accommodation Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Accommodation In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Accommodation
