Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Astronomy The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Astronomy
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 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 Astronomy The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Astronomy
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Astronomy Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Astronomy
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Astronomy "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Astronomy
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Astronomy The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Astronomy
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Astronomy Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Astronomy
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. 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 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Astronomy In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Astronomy
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Astronomy "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Astronomy
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Astronomy Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Astronomy
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Astronomy Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Astronomy
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Astronomy I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 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 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Astronomy
