Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I 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 Science and Environment The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Science and Environment
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Science and Environment Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Science and Environment
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Science and Environment "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Science and Environment
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Science and Environment
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Science and Environment Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Science and Environment
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Science and Environment However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Science and Environment
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) 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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Science and Environment your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Science and Environment
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Science and Environment I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Science and Environment
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Science and Environment It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Science and Environment
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Science and Environment The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Science and Environment
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Science and Environment Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Science and Environment
