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That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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, Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Science and Environment When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Science and Environment
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. 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 Science and Environment Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Science and Environment "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Science and Environment
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Science and Environment "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Science and Environment
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Science and Environment They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Science and Environment
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Science and Environment 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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Science and Environment
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Science and Environment In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Science and Environment
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "... 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) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Science and Environment Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Science and Environment The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Science and Environment "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Science and Environment
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Science and Environment "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Science and Environment
