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May you never leave your marriage alive. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Science and Environment "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Science and Environment
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Science and Environment We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Science and Environment
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 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Science and Environment "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Science and Environment
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Science and Environment For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Science and Environment
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Science and Environment What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Science and Environment
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Science and Environment Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Science and Environment
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Science and Environment He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Science and Environment I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Science and Environment
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 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 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Science and Environment Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Science and Environment
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Science and Environment It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Science and Environment
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Science and Environment Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
