"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Mathematics
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Mathematics If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Mathematics The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Mathematics
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Mathematics A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Mathematics
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Mathematics Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Mathematics
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Mathematics I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Mathematics
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Mathematics I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Mathematics
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Mathematics The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Mathematics
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "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 wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Mathematics If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Mathematics
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Mathematics Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Mathematics Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Mathematics
