Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wasdale The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 Wasdale
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Wasdale "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wasdale
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Wasdale Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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 must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Wasdale
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Wasdale If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov 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 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Wasdale
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Wasdale The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Wasdale
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Wasdale Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Wasdale
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Wasdale "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Wasdale
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Wasdale "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Wasdale
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Wasdale Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Wasdale
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 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Wasdale You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Wasdale
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Wasdale I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Wasdale
