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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Science and Environment 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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Science and Environment
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Science and Environment A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash 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 "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Science and Environment
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Science and Environment Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Science and Environment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Science and Environment
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Science and Environment "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Science and Environment
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Science and Environment There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Science and Environment Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Science and Environment
"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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment "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 "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 Science and Environment
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Science and Environment "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Science and Environment
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Science and Environment Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Science and Environment
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Science and Environment "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Science and Environment
