There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Accommodation Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Accommodation
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Accommodation "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Accommodation
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Accommodation
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Accommodation Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Accommodation "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Accommodation
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Accommodation It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Accommodation
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Accommodation
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Accommodation "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Accommodation
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "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) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Accommodation When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Accommodation
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Accommodation "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Accommodation
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock 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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Accommodation Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Accommodation
