The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Reunions and Alumni Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Reunions and Alumni True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Reunions and Alumni
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Reunions and Alumni A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reunions and Alumni
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Reunions and Alumni We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Reunions and Alumni
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Reunions and Alumni We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Reunions and Alumni
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Reunions and Alumni Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "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 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' 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 Reunions and Alumni The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Reunions and Alumni
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Reunions and Alumni "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Reunions and Alumni
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Reunions and Alumni 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 "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) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Reunions and Alumni
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Reunions and Alumni When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Reunions and Alumni
"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') You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Reunions and Alumni He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Reunions and Alumni
