The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Science and Environment How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment 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 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "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) Science and Environment
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Science and Environment Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Science and Environment
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Science and Environment "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Science and Environment
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Science and Environment A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Science and Environment
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Science and Environment Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Science and Environment
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Science and Environment No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Science and Environment
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Science and Environment "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Science and Environment
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Science and Environment If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Science and Environment Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "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) Science and Environment
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Science and Environment Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
