Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Ylistaro Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Ylistaro
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Ylistaro I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Ylistaro
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Ylistaro "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ylistaro
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Ylistaro Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Ylistaro
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Ylistaro And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Ylistaro
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Ylistaro "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Ylistaro
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Ylistaro Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. 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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Ylistaro
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Ylistaro Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Ylistaro
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Ylistaro Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "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 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Ylistaro
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Ylistaro Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Ylistaro
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Ylistaro For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Ylistaro
