Rennison, Colin - Personal web page. Includes his work, hobbies and travel pictures.
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Society and Culture A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Society and Culture
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Society and Culture
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Society and Culture
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Society and Culture Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Society and Culture
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture 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 "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Society and Culture
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Society and Culture
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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 Society and Culture First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Society and Culture To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Society and Culture If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture
