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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Science and Environment Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Science and Environment I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Science and Environment
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Science and Environment You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Science and Environment
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Science and Environment "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Science and Environment
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Science and Environment A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Science and Environment
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science and Environment Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde What's new? Most of my wife. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Science and Environment There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Science and Environment
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Science and Environment Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "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
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Science and Environment I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Science and Environment
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Science and Environment blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science and Environment
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Science and Environment "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Science and Environment
