Mount Pelion Nature Link - An exploration of the landscapes, wildlife, flowers and fungi of the mountain, through a series of original photographs and sketches.
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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Science and Environment 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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Science and Environment
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY 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 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Science and Environment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Science and Environment
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Science and Environment Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Science and Environment
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Science and Environment Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Science and Environment
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Science and Environment "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Science and Environment
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Science and Environment The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Science and Environment
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet 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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Science and Environment Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Science and Environment
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Science and Environment Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa 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 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Science and Environment
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th 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
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Science and Environment None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science and Environment
