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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Accommodation Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Accommodation
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV 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 Accommodation Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Accommodation Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Accommodation Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Accommodation
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Accommodation
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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" A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Accommodation Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Accommodation
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Accommodation Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Accommodation Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Accommodation
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Accommodation The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Accommodation
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Accommodation The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Accommodation
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Accommodation
