The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Science and Environment If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Science and Environment
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Science and Environment "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Science and Environment
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright 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. Science and Environment A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Science and Environment
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Science and Environment Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Science and Environment
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Science and Environment "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Science and Environment
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Science and Environment 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 choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment
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. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Science and Environment "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Science and Environment
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Science and Environment A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Science and Environment
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science and Environment For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Science and Environment
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Science and Environment I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science and Environment
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Science and Environment Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Science and Environment
