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 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Science and Environment Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Science and Environment
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Science and Environment "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Science and Environment
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Science and Environment 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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Science and Environment
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 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 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Science and Environment Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 Science and Environment Marriage is a rest period between romances. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Science and Environment
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "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) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Science and Environment Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Science and Environment
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Science and Environment Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Science and Environment
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Science and Environment "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Science and Environment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Science and Environment
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Science and Environment 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 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Science and Environment
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Science and Environment Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Science and Environment
