Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Resources for Educators "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Resources for Educators
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Resources for Educators "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Resources for Educators Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Resources for Educators Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Resources for Educators
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Resources for Educators Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Resources for Educators
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Resources for Educators "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Resources for Educators
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Resources for Educators Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Resources for Educators
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Resources for Educators I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Resources for Educators
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Resources for Educators It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Resources for Educators
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Resources for Educators Marriage is a rest period between romances. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Resources for Educators
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Resources for Educators Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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