Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "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 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Lostwithiel He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Lostwithiel
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Lostwithiel "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Lostwithiel
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge 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.
Lostwithiel I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lostwithiel
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Lostwithiel Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Lostwithiel
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Lostwithiel Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Lostwithiel
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lostwithiel Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Lostwithiel
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Lostwithiel The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Lostwithiel
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lostwithiel Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Lostwithiel
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Lostwithiel Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lostwithiel
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Lostwithiel "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Lostwithiel
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) 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 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Lostwithiel Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Lostwithiel
