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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Science and Environment Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Science and Environment
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Science and Environment Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Science and Environment
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Science and Environment Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Science and Environment The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Science and Environment As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Science and Environment
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Science and Environment My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Science and Environment
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Science and Environment To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Science and Environment
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Science and Environment A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Science and Environment
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Science and Environment Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Science and Environment
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Science and Environment The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Science and Environment
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Science and Environment My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
