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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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Science and Environment "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Science and Environment
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Science and Environment And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Science and Environment
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Science and Environment
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Science and Environment
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Science and Environment
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Science and Environment Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Science and Environment
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Science and Environment If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Science and Environment
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Science and Environment If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Science and Environment
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel 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 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Science and Environment What's new? Most of my wife. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Science and Environment
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Science and Environment >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Science and Environment
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Science and Environment
