We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Science and Environment I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola 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) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Science and Environment Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Science and Environment
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Science and Environment "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Science and Environment
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Science and Environment "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Science and Environment
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "'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) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Science and Environment "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Science and Environment
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Science and Environment Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Science and Environment
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 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 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Science and Environment Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Science and Environment
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates 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 Science and Environment We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Science and Environment There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Science and Environment
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Science and Environment The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Science and Environment
