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With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Biology Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Biology
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Biology Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Biology
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Biology A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Biology
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Biology The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 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 "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Biology
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 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Biology "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Biology
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Biology "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Biology
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Biology You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Biology
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Biology Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Biology
"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) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Biology "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Biology
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Biology "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Biology
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon 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 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Biology "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) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Biology
