We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 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 Accommodation Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Accommodation
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Accommodation Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Accommodation
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Accommodation America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Accommodation
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Accommodation "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Accommodation
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Accommodation Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Accommodation "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Accommodation
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Accommodation I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Accommodation
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Accommodation "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Accommodation "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Accommodation
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Accommodation Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Accommodation blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Accommodation
