A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Earth Sciences "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Earth Sciences
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Earth Sciences I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Earth Sciences
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Earth Sciences I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Earth Sciences
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Earth Sciences The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Earth Sciences
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Earth Sciences Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Earth Sciences
"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 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Earth Sciences "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Earth Sciences
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 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 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Earth Sciences "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Earth Sciences
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Earth Sciences "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Earth Sciences
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Earth Sciences "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) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Earth Sciences
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Earth Sciences The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Earth Sciences
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Earth Sciences Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Earth Sciences
