Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Science and Environment We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Science and Environment
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Science and Environment A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Science and Environment
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Science and Environment It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Science and Environment
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Science and Environment Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Science and Environment
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Science and Environment The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Science and Environment
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Science and Environment The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Science and Environment
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Science and Environment "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Science and Environment
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 A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Science and Environment Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Science and Environment
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Science and Environment Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) 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 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Science and Environment Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Science and Environment "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Science and Environment
