Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Accommodation Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Accommodation
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Accommodation Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Accommodation Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Accommodation
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Accommodation I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Accommodation
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Accommodation Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Accommodation
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Accommodation "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Accommodation
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Accommodation "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Accommodation
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Accommodation A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "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
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 "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Accommodation "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Accommodation
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Accommodation You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Accommodation
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers 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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Accommodation
