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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Science and Environment It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Science and Environment He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Science and Environment "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Science and Environment
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Science and Environment "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Science and Environment
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Science and Environment "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Science and Environment
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Science and Environment Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Science and Environment
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Science and Environment If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Science and Environment
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Science and Environment If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Science and Environment
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Science and Environment Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Science and Environment
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Science and Environment Marriage is a rest period between romances. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Science and Environment
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Science and Environment Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Science and Environment
