There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words E Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) E
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w 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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper E When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara E
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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln E In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g E
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) E Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
E
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman E "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi E
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 E "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) 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 E
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban E "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) E
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) E It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) E
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown E To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) E
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. E "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully 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 E
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde E I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) E
