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 Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 Violence At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Violence
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "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.) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Violence Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Violence
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Violence He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Violence
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Violence The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Violence
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Violence "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 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "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 Violence
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Violence Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Violence
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Violence "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Violence
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Violence The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Violence
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Violence When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Violence
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death 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' Violence "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Violence
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Violence I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Violence
