We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Religion "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Religion
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Religion 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 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Religion
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Religion We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Religion
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Religion
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Religion It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Religion
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Religion Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Religion
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Religion The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Religion
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Religion My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Religion
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Religion The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Religion
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Religion "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) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Religion
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Religion A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion
