Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Oswaldtwistle A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Oswaldtwistle
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Oswaldtwistle Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oswaldtwistle
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Oswaldtwistle An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Oswaldtwistle
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Oswaldtwistle Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Oswaldtwistle
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Oswaldtwistle Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Oswaldtwistle
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Oswaldtwistle One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Oswaldtwistle
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Oswaldtwistle Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "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 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Oswaldtwistle
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Oswaldtwistle If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oswaldtwistle
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Oswaldtwistle "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Oswaldtwistle
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "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) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Oswaldtwistle Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Oswaldtwistle
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 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Oswaldtwistle Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Oswaldtwistle
