There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Ireland Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ireland
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ireland If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Ireland
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Ireland "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Ireland
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Ireland I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Ireland
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) 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 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Ireland "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) 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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Ireland
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Ireland You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Ireland
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "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) Ireland How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Ireland
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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Ireland "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Ireland
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Ireland Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Ireland
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 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Ireland Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Ireland
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Ireland "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Ireland
