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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Accommodation Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Accommodation When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Accommodation There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Accommodation
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Accommodation "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Accommodation
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Accommodation The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Accommodation
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Accommodation Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher 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 Unhappy Accommodation
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau 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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Accommodation "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Accommodation
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Accommodation "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Accommodation
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Accommodation "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Accommodation
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Accommodation The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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? "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 Accommodation
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Accommodation For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Accommodation
