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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "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) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Accommodation 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 I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Accommodation
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Accommodation But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Accommodation
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Accommodation Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Accommodation
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Accommodation Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Accommodation
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Accommodation Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Accommodation
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Accommodation
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Accommodation
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 Accommodation "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Accommodation
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Accommodation "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Accommodation
