I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Science "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Science
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Science The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Science
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Science The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) 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 Science
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Science Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Science
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Science Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Science
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Science
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Science What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Science
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Science "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Science
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Science We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Science
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Science All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Science
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Science Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Science
