Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Accommodation >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Accommodation
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "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) Accommodation The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Accommodation
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Accommodation Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Accommodation
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Accommodation Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Accommodation
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Accommodation
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Accommodation Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Accommodation
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Accommodation I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous 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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Accommodation You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Accommodation
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Accommodation "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Accommodation
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Accommodation
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Accommodation You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Accommodation
