"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Biology Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 Biology
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Biology Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Biology
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Biology Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Biology
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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. He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Biology Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Biology
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Biology Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Biology
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Biology "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Biology
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Biology "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Biology
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Biology "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Biology
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Biology "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Biology
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Biology 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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Biology
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biology And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Biology
