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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Accommodation To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Accommodation
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Accommodation Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Accommodation If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Accommodation One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Accommodation
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Accommodation Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Accommodation
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Accommodation In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Accommodation
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Accommodation Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Accommodation
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin 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 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Accommodation And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Accommodation
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 Accommodation "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Accommodation I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Accommodation
