Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Football Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Football
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Football For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Football
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Football "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 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Football
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Football "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Football
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Football Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Football "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Football The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Football
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Football Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Football
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 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 a Football People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Football
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Football Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Football
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Football "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Football
