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In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Bowes 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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Bowes
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Bowes He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Bowes
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bowes "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Bowes
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Bowes The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Bowes
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Bowes "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Bowes
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Bowes The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Bowes
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 I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Bowes "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Bowes
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Bowes The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Bowes
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Bowes "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Bowes
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Bowes You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Bowes
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Bowes Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Bowes
