Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grangecon Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Grangecon
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Grangecon "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Grangecon
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Grangecon "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Grangecon
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Grangecon We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Grangecon
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Grangecon Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Grangecon
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Grangecon "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Grangecon
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Grangecon I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Grangecon
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Grangecon "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Grangecon
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Grangecon It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Grangecon
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Grangecon Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Grangecon
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Grangecon He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Grangecon
