It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "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) Pabianice I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Pabianice
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Pabianice Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Pabianice
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Pabianice There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Pabianice
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Pabianice "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Pabianice
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Pabianice You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Pabianice
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Pabianice "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Pabianice
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Pabianice Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Pabianice
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Pabianice A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Pabianice
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Pabianice Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Pabianice
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Pabianice Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Pabianice
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Pabianice A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Pabianice
