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The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Science and Environment The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Science and Environment
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Science and Environment The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Science and Environment
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Science and Environment blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Science and Environment
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Science and Environment
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Science and Environment blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Science and Environment Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Science and Environment "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Science and Environment
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Science and Environment "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Science and Environment
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Science and Environment
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Science and Environment Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Science and Environment
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Science and Environment
