Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Science and Environment Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Science and Environment
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Science and Environment Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Science and Environment
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford 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 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Science and Environment Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Science and Environment
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Science and Environment The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Science and Environment
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Science and Environment
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "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) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Science and Environment I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Science and Environment
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Science and Environment "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Science and Environment
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "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) Science and Environment "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Science and Environment
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada May you never leave your marriage alive. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Science and Environment How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Science and Environment
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Science and Environment
