If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Geology Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Geology
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Geology The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Geology
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Geology I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Geology
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Geology 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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Geology
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Geology Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Geology
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Geology Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Geology
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Geology May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Geology
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Geology If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Geology
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Geology "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Geology
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Geology If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Geology
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Geology It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Geology
