If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "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) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Science and Environment Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Science and Environment
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Science and Environment The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Science and Environment
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Science and Environment Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Science and Environment
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Science and Environment I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Science and Environment
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Science and Environment Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Science and Environment
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Science and Environment blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Science and Environment
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Science and Environment If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Science and Environment
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Science and Environment Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Science and Environment
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Science and Environment We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Science and Environment
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Science and Environment
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Science and Environment Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
