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When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Science and Environment I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal 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.
-- Crow This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Science and Environment
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Science and Environment The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Science and Environment
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "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 Science and Environment The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Science and Environment
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Science and Environment What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "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) Science and Environment
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Science and Environment If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Science and Environment
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Science and Environment I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Science and Environment
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Science and Environment This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Science and Environment
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Science and Environment Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Science and Environment
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Science and Environment Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Science and Environment
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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Science and Environment "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science and Environment
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Science and Environment "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Science and Environment
