"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Accommodation A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Accommodation The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Accommodation
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Accommodation I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Accommodation
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Accommodation The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Accommodation
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Accommodation If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Accommodation
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 Unha "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Accommodation Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Accommodation
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Accommodation "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Accommodation
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "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) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Accommodation "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Accommodation
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Accommodation There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Accommodation
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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Accommodation "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Accommodation
