Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "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) Accommodation When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Accommodation
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Man and wife make one fool. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Accommodation "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) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Accommodation
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Accommodation When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Accommodation
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Accommodation "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Accommodation
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Accommodation "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Accommodation
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Accommodation "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Accommodation
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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Accommodation "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Accommodation
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Accommodation Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Accommodation
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright 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 Accommodation We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Accommodation
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Accommodation Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Accommodation
