I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Sokal "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Sokal
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Sokal "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Sokal
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison 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 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Sokal "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Sokal
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Sokal "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Sokal
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C 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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Sokal I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Sokal
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Sokal The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Sokal
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Sokal Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Sokal
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Sokal Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Sokal
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Sokal Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Sokal
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Sokal "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Sokal
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Sokal Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Sokal
