If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Science and Environment 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 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Science and Environment Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Science and Environment
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Science and Environment The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Science and Environment
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Science and Environment A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Science and Environment
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Science and Environment
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Science and Environment Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Science and Environment
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Science and Environment Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Science and Environment
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Science and Environment The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Science and Environment
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Science and Environment The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Science and Environment
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Science and Environment I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Science and Environment "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Science and Environment
