Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Science and Environment This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Science and Environment
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Science and Environment
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 Unhappy I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Science and Environment
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Science and Environment In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Science and Environment 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 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Science and Environment
"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) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Science and Environment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Science and Environment
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 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Science and Environment A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Science and Environment
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Science and Environment
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 There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Science and Environment He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Science and Environment I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Science and Environment
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Science and Environment "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Science and Environment
