My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler EPSRC Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau EPSRC
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) EPSRC Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw EPSRC
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous EPSRC Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) EPSRC
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all EPSRC ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein EPSRC
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe EPSRC The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich My other wife is beautiful. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. EPSRC
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) EPSRC I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea EPSRC
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh EPSRC I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick EPSRC
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) EPSRC No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) EPSRC
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago EPSRC When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine EPSRC
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual EPSRC 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 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) 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 EPSRC
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) EPSRC "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) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln EPSRC
