It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Accommodation Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Accommodation
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Accommodation 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 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Accommodation
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Accommodation 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 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Accommodation
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Accommodation Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Accommodation
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Accommodation Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Accommodation
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Accommodation I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Accommodation
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Accommodation "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Accommodation
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Accommodation The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Accommodation
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Accommodation There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Accommodation
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Accommodation "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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 Accommodation
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Accommodation I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Accommodation
