"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Accommodation Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Accommodation
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Accommodation "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Accommodation There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Man and wife make one fool. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Accommodation
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Accommodation Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Accommodation
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Accommodation Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Accommodation
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Accommodation 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Accommodation
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation 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 "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Accommodation
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Accommodation "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Accommodation
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Accommodation Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Accommodation
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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Accommodation That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Accommodation
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Accommodation Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation
