What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Science and Environment
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.
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 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Science and Environment To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Science and Environment
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Science and Environment A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Science and Environment
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science and Environment Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Science and Environment
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Science and Environment "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Science and Environment Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Science and Environment
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Science and Environment Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Science and Environment
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Science and Environment "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "... 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) Science and Environment As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Science and Environment
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Science and Environment Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Science and Environment
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Science and Environment See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Science and Environment
