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>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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Accommodation "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Accommodation At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Accommodation
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Accommodation
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 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Accommodation My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Accommodation
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Accommodation The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Accommodation
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Accommodation America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Accommodation
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Man and wife make one fool. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Accommodation The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Accommodation The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Accommodation Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Accommodation
