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"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Crick, Francis When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Crick, Francis
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Crick, Francis "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Crick, Francis
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Crick, Francis "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Crick, Francis
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Crick, Francis If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Crick, Francis
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Crick, Francis If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Crick, Francis
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Crick, Francis Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Crick, Francis
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Crick, Francis Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Crick, Francis
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Crick, Francis Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Crick, Francis
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Crick, Francis Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Crick, Francis
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Crick, Francis Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Crick, Francis
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Crick, Francis Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Crick, Francis
