Argonautica - Jason and the Argonauts. History and cause of the expedition. Information about the ship and the crew.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Society and Culture
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Society and Culture "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Society and Culture
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Society and Culture
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Society and Culture "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str 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 Society and Culture
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Society and Culture
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture 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 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Society and Culture
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Society and Culture Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Society and Culture
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Society and Culture We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
