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These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Science and Environment Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Science and Environment
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Science and Environment The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Science and Environment
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Science and Environment If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Science and Environment
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Science and Environment
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Science and Environment "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Science and Environment
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Science and Environment "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Science and Environment
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Science and Environment I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Science and Environment
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Science and Environment A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Science and Environment
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Science and Environment
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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Science and Environment "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Science and Environment
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Science and Environment "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Science and Environment
