If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Physics It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Physics
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Physics Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Physics
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Physics The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Physics
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Physics 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. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Physics
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Physics 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 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Physics
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Physics There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Physics
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Physics Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Physics
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Physics 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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Physics
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Physics Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Physics
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Physics "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Physics
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Physics Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Physics
