My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Chemistry "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Chemistry
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Chemistry If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Chemistry
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Chemistry The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Chemistry
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Chemistry The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Chemistry
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Chemistry Man and wife make one fool. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Chemistry
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Chemistry It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Chemistry
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chemistry 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.
-- Crow I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Chemistry
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Chemistry "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Chemistry
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Chemistry Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Chemistry
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Chemistry What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Chemistry
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Chemistry 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 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Chemistry
