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Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Physics The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Physics
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Physics We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Physics
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Physics Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire My other wife is beautiful. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Physics
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Physics 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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Physics
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Physics You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Physics
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Physics "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Physics
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Physics To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Physics
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Physics Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Physics
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Physics None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Physics
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 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 Physics Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Physics
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Physics "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Physics
