Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 History If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus History
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge History My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein History
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells History Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton 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 History
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx History A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau History
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) History "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. History
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley History May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte History
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken History I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith History
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) History Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville History
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh History Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) History
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler History The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw History
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) History Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin History
