The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Accommodation Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Accommodation
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Accommodation
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) 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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Accommodation "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Accommodation
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Accommodation "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Accommodation
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Accommodation I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Accommodation
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Accommodation Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Accommodation
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Accommodation How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Man and wife make one fool. Accommodation
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Accommodation Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Accommodation The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Accommodation
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch >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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Accommodation "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Accommodation
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Accommodation Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation
