"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "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) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Science and Environment Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Science and Environment
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Science and Environment "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Science and Environment
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "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) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Science and Environment Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Science and Environment
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Science and Environment Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Science and Environment
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Science and Environment We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Science and Environment The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Science and Environment
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Science and Environment 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Science and Environment
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Science and Environment Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Science and Environment
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Science and Environment The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 Science and Environment
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Science and Environment When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Science and Environment
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Science and Environment "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Science and Environment
