"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) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams 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 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Accommodation 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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Accommodation
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Accommodation "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Accommodation
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Accommodation blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Accommodation
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Accommodation There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Accommodation
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Accommodation Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 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) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Accommodation Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Accommodation 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 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Accommodation
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire 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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Accommodation It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Accommodation
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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Accommodation We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Accommodation
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Accommodation Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Accommodation
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Accommodation
