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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Accommodation I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Accommodation
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Accommodation
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Accommodation The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Accommodation
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Accommodation History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Accommodation
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Accommodation You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Accommodation
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Accommodation You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Accommodation
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Accommodation Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Accommodation
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Accommodation "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Accommodation
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 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 Accommodation Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Accommodation
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Accommodation "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Accommodation
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) 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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Accommodation The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Accommodation
