Dublin Naturalists Field Club - The club is interested in all aspects of natural history, Information about the book "Flora of County Dublin", butterflies, and other publications.
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Science and Environment One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Science and Environment
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Science and Environment Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Science and Environment
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Science and Environment Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Science and Environment
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Science and Environment A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Science and Environment
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Science and Environment Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Science and Environment
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Science and Environment "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Science and Environment
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Science and Environment
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Science and Environment If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Science and Environment
"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) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Science and Environment Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Science and Environment
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Science and Environment A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Science and Environment
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Science and Environment
