All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben S
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous S A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) S
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. S Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time S
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper S Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll S
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy S "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld S
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells S "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) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton S
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi S When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas S
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein S The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes S
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau S In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri S
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers S As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson S
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben S A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort S
