In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Ultraviolet Forecasts When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Ultraviolet Forecasts
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Ultraviolet Forecasts "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Ultraviolet Forecasts
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Ultraviolet Forecasts The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Ultraviolet Forecasts
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Ultraviolet Forecasts Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Ultraviolet Forecasts
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Ultraviolet Forecasts "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Ultraviolet Forecasts
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Ultraviolet Forecasts He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Ultraviolet Forecasts
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Ultraviolet Forecasts The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Ultraviolet Forecasts
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ultraviolet Forecasts "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Ultraviolet Forecasts
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Ultraviolet Forecasts 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 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Ultraviolet Forecasts
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Ultraviolet Forecasts 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 To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Ultraviolet Forecasts
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Ultraviolet Forecasts Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Ultraviolet Forecasts
