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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. – Max Beerbohm	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. – Felix Frankfurter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence. – Luis Buñuel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. – Andrew Young	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes. – Sir Walter Scott	added by anonymous 12 years ago
All that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent; all that is new is not despicable on that account alone. Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others. – Hindu Drama	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. – Goethe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
In all that belongs to man you cannot find a greater wonder than memory. What a treasury of all things! What a record! What a journal of all! As if provident Nature, because she would have man circumspect, had furnished him with an account-book, to carry always with him. Yet it neither burthens nor takes up room. – Feltham	added by anonymous 12 years ago
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. – Will Rogers	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. – Professor Irwin Corey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. – Joseph F. Newton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. – Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. – Robert A. Heinlein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. – Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. – Saint Basil	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people. – Douglas Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. – Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account. – Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Napoleon Bonaparte	added by anonymous 13 years ago
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .. – Isaac Asimov	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. – Seneca	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. – Haniel Long	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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