"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Science and Environment Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Science and Environment A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Science and Environment
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Science and Environment Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Science and Environment
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Science and Environment "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) 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 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Science and Environment
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Science and Environment The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Science and Environment
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Science and Environment Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Science and Environment
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Science and Environment The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "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
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Science and Environment You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Science and Environment
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Science and Environment Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Science and Environment
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews 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 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Science and Environment Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Science and Environment
