Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Science and Environment
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Science and Environment We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Science and Environment
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Science and Environment I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Science and Environment
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Science and Environment Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Science and Environment
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Science and Environment I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Science and Environment
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Science and Environment Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Science and Environment
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Science and Environment Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Science and Environment
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science and Environment Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Science and Environment
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Science and Environment "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) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Science and Environment
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "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) 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 Science and Environment We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Science and Environment
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Science and Environment The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Science and Environment
