Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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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We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Science and Environment Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Science and Environment
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Science and Environment There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Science and Environment
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Science and Environment To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Science and Environment
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Science and Environment "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Science and Environment We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Science and Environment
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Science and Environment An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Science and Environment
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Science and Environment Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Science and Environment We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Science and Environment
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Science and Environment "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Science and Environment
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Science and Environment For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment
