"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Science and Environment I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Science and Environment
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Science and Environment If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Science and Environment
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Science and Environment "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 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 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Science and Environment Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Science and Environment
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Science and Environment Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Science and Environment
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Science and Environment Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Science and Environment
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Science and Environment "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Science and Environment
Marriage is a rest period between romances. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Science and Environment Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Science and Environment
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 Science and Environment As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Science and Environment
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Science and Environment It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Science and Environment
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
