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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) 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 Science and Environment The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Science and Environment
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Science and Environment
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Science and Environment People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Science and Environment
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Science and Environment "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Science and Environment
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Science and Environment In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Science and Environment
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Science and Environment "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Science and Environment
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Science and Environment To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Science and Environment
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi 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 Science and Environment "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Science and Environment
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 Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Science and Environment Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Science and Environment
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Science and Environment The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Science and Environment All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Science and Environment
