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 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 Science and Environment Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Science and Environment
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Science and Environment Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous May you never leave your marriage alive. Science and Environment "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) 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 The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Science and Environment
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Science and Environment The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Science and Environment
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Science and Environment Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Science and Environment
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Science and Environment Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Science and Environment
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "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 Science and Environment "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Science and Environment
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Science and Environment The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Science and Environment
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Science and Environment "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Science and Environment
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Science and Environment It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "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
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Science and Environment We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Science and Environment
