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 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Society and Culture This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Society and Culture
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Society and Culture You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Society and Culture "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Society and Culture
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Society and Culture
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Society and Culture
May you never leave your marriage alive. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Society and Culture We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
