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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Science and Environment Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Science and Environment
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Science and Environment
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Science and Environment Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn May you never leave your marriage alive. When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Science and Environment Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Science and Environment He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Science and Environment
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Science and Environment Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Science and Environment
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Science and Environment "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Science and Environment Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Nietzsche "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Science and Environment
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Science and Environment To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Science and Environment
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Science and Environment Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Science and Environment
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 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 Science and Environment The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment
