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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller 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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Science and Environment The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Science and Environment
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Science and Environment "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Science and Environment To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Science and Environment
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Science and Environment The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Science and Environment
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Science and Environment Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Science and Environment
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Science and Environment I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Science and Environment
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl 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 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 Science and Environment Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Science and Environment
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "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) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Science and Environment
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Science and Environment When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Science and Environment
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Science and Environment Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
