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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Science and Environment Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Science and Environment
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Science and Environment "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Science and Environment
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Science and Environment If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Science and Environment
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Science and Environment Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Science and Environment
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Science and Environment Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Science and Environment
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Science and Environment I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Science and Environment
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller 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 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Science and Environment
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Science and Environment Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Science and Environment
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Science and Environment Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Science and Environment
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- 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 Science and Environment "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Science and Environment
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Science and Environment
