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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Agriculture NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Agriculture
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain 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 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Agriculture Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Agriculture
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Agriculture Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Agriculture
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Agriculture Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Agriculture
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Agriculture 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' "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Agriculture
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Agriculture Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Agriculture
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 Agriculture "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Agriculture
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Agriculture Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Agriculture
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Agriculture "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Agriculture
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Agriculture Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Agriculture
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Agriculture Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Agriculture
