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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Science and Environment Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Science and Environment
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 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Science and Environment The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Science and Environment
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Science and Environment The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Science and Environment
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur 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 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Science and Environment
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Science and Environment The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Science and Environment
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Science and Environment "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Science and Environment
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Science and Environment Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Science and Environment
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Science and Environment "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Science and Environment
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Science and Environment In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Science and Environment
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Science and Environment We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Science and Environment A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Science and Environment
