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"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Accommodation "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Accommodation
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Accommodation
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 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 Accommodation "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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 Accommodation Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Accommodation
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Accommodation Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Accommodation "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "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 Accommodation
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Accommodation "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Accommodation
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Accommodation Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Accommodation
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Accommodation Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Accommodation
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Accommodation What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Accommodation
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "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 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Accommodation This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Accommodation
