Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Chemistry I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Chemistry
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Chemistry Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Chemistry
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz 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 Chemistry Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Chemistry
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Chemistry Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Chemistry
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th 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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Chemistry The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Chemistry
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 "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 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 Chemistry "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Chemistry
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Chemistry "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Chemistry
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Chemistry We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chemistry
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Chemistry All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Chemistry
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chemistry Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 May you never leave your marriage alive. Chemistry
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chemistry 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Chemistry
