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 "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Newspapers "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Newspapers
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Newspapers Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Newspapers
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl 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 Newspapers "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Newspapers
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Newspapers "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Newspapers
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Newspapers The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Newspapers
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Newspapers Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Newspapers
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Newspapers Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Newspapers
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Newspapers Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Newspapers
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Newspapers We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Newspapers
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Newspapers Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newspapers
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Newspapers "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Newspapers
