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"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) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Accommodation In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Accommodation
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Accommodation Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Accommodation You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Accommodation
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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' "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Accommodation Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Accommodation
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Accommodation He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Accommodation
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Accommodation "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Accommodation
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Accommodation You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Accommodation "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Accommodation
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Accommodation
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Accommodation "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
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Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
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