All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Irnham I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Irnham
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Irnham "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Irnham
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Irnham The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Irnham
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Irnham Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Irnham
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "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." "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Irnham "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Irnham
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Irnham "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Irnham
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Irnham Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Irnham
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Irnham One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Irnham
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Irnham 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 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Irnham
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Irnham Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Irnham
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Irnham Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Irnham
