"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) By County We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) By County
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin By County "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) By County
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens By County Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. By County
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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 "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 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres By County Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. By County
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison By County A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) By County
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. By County blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) By County
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire By County When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw By County
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. By County "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." When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain By County
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber By County There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence By County
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) By County The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw By County
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer By County All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words By County
