"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Accommodation The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown 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 Accommodation
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Accommodation I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Accommodation
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Accommodation
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Accommodation "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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Accommodation
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 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld 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 Accommodation A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Accommodation
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Accommodation Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller 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 >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Accommodation If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Accommodation
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Accommodation 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.
-- Crowf If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 Accommodation
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Accommodation Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Accommodation
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Accommodation Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Accommodation
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Accommodation Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Accommodation
