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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Science and Environment "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Science and Environment
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Science and Environment Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Science and Environment
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Science and Environment "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Science and Environment
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Science and Environment I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau 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 Science and Environment
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Science and Environment Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Science and Environment
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Science and Environment Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Science and Environment
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Science and Environment The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Science and Environment
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Science and Environment Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Science and Environment
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Science and Environment The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Science and Environment
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Science and Environment
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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Science and Environment Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Science and Environment
