Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Science and Environment To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Science and Environment
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Science and Environment "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Science and Environment
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "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) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Science and Environment You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Science and Environment
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Science and Environment "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Science and Environment
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Science and Environment Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Science and Environment
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Science and Environment This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Science and Environment
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Science and Environment "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Science and Environment
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr 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 Science and Environment "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Science and Environment
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Science and Environment We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Science and Environment
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Science and Environment
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "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 Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Science and Environment
