I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) 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 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton 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 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Accommodation
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Accommodation "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) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Accommodation
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Accommodation I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane 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 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Accommodation
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Accommodation "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Accommodation
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Accommodation Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Accommodation
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Accommodation The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Accommodation
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness 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 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Accommodation I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Accommodation
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "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) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Accommodation If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Accommodation Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Accommodation
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Accommodation Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Accommodation
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Accommodation A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Accommodation
