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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Lodging "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Lodging
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou 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) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Lodging He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Lodging
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Lodging Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Lodging
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Lodging Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Lodging
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Lodging "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Lodging
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Lodging The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Lodging
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Lodging "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Lodging
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Lodging There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "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) Lodging
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Lodging "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Lodging
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Lodging The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Lodging
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Lodging It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Lodging
