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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Accommodation "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Accommodation
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Accommodation The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Accommodation
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Accommodation The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Accommodation
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Accommodation I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Accommodation
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Accommodation Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Accommodation
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Accommodation Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Accommodation
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Accommodation I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Accommodation
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Accommodation If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Accommodation
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Accommodation Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Accommodation
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Accommodation I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Accommodation
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Accommodation Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Accommodation
