If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Accommodation
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Accommodation Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Accommodation Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Accommodation Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Accommodation I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) 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
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower 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 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "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) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Accommodation
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Accommodation "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Accommodation The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Accommodation
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Accommodation
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Accommodation Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Accommodation
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 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 Accommodation Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Accommodation
