I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Science and Environment Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Science and Environment
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop 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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Science and Environment Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Science and Environment
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "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) Science and Environment You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Science and Environment
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Science and Environment When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "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) Science and Environment
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Science and Environment Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Science and Environment
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Science and Environment A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Science and Environment
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Science and Environment "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Science and Environment
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Science and Environment What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Science and Environment
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Science and Environment It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Science and Environment
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Science and Environment "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Science and Environment
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Science and Environment If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Science and Environment
