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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Earth Sciences ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Earth Sciences
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Earth Sciences Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Earth Sciences
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Earth Sciences What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Earth Sciences
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Earth Sciences Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Earth Sciences
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Earth Sciences We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Earth Sciences
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Earth Sciences Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Earth Sciences
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 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 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Earth Sciences
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Earth Sciences "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) Earth Sciences
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Earth Sciences I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Earth Sciences
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Earth Sciences I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Earth Sciences
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "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." A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Earth Sciences The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Earth Sciences
