One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Science and Environment Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "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." Science and Environment
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Science and Environment "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon 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 Science and Environment
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Science and Environment "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker My other wife is beautiful. Science and Environment I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Science and Environment
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Science and Environment Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Science and Environment
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Science and Environment "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Science and Environment
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Science and Environment
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Science and Environment Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Science and Environment
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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Science and Environment Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Science and Environment
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Science and Environment In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Science and Environment
