I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Earth Sciences The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Earth Sciences
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Earth Sciences He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Earth Sciences
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 Earth Sciences The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Earth Sciences
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Earth Sciences A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Earth Sciences
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. 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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Earth Sciences A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Earth Sciences
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Earth Sciences 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 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Earth Sciences
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Earth Sciences When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Earth Sciences
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Earth Sciences This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Earth Sciences
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Earth Sciences The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Earth Sciences
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Earth Sciences How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Earth Sciences
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Earth Sciences He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Earth Sciences
