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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Science and Environment If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Science and Environment
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Science and Environment You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Science and Environment
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "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." Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Science and Environment Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Science and Environment
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Science and Environment
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Science and Environment Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Science and Environment I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Science and Environment
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Science and Environment The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Science and Environment
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Science and Environment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Science and Environment
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Science and Environment "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Science and Environment
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Science and Environment Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Science and Environment
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Science and Environment "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Science and Environment
