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"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Rail The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Rail
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Rail Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Rail
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Rail My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Rail
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "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' Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Rail We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Rail
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "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) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Rail Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Rail
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple 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 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Rail "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Rail
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Rail Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Rail
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Rail A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Rail
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rail Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Rail
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Rail Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Rail
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Rail Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Rail
