One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Accommodation "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Accommodation
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Accommodation The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Accommodation
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Accommodation I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Accommodation
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Accommodation Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) 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" Accommodation
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Accommodation The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Accommodation "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 Accommodation
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "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 Accommodation Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Accommodation
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Accommodation "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Accommodation It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Accommodation
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Accommodation Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Accommodation
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac 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 reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Accommodation
