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Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Engineering blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Engineering
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Engineering In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Engineering
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Engineering Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Engineering
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Engineering When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Engineering
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Engineering If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Engineering
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Engineering We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Engineering
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Engineering The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Engineering
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Engineering There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Engineering
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Engineering I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Engineering
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Engineering 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. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Engineering
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Engineering blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Engineering
