Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Weather "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Weather
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Weather "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) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Weather
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Weather Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Weather
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Weather "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Weather
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 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Weather The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Weather
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Weather
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford 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 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Weather A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Weather
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Weather I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Weather
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Weather "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Weather
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Weather When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller May you never leave your marriage alive. Weather
