Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Science and Environment "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Science and Environment
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Science and Environment When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Science and Environment
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it 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 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Science and Environment There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Science and Environment
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Science and Environment "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Science and Environment
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Science and Environment I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Science and Environment
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Science and Environment Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Science and Environment
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "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) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Science and Environment Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Science and Environment I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Science and Environment
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Marriage is a rest period between romances. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Science and Environment Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Science and Environment
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Science and Environment Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Science and Environment
