I was cleaning out my old email the other day when I couldn't send anything 'cause my mailbox was full and found these. My mom sends these to me. So here's what
Math/Science/Education
Mathematics is music for the mind. Music is mathematics for the soul. - anonymous
Nature uses as little as possible of anything. -Johannes Kepler, astronomer (1571-1630)
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." --- Albert Einstein
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to obtain knowledge. – Arnold Glasgow
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BC)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. -Barnett Cocks
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." --- B.F. Skinner, 1904-90
Everything you've learned in school as `obvious' becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. -R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (1895-1983)
"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery." ---Enrico Fermi
Life/Reality/Sucess
"All big things in this world are done by people who are naïve and have an idea that is obviously impossible." ---Frank Richards
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." --- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
What is to give light, must endure burning. - Viktor Frankl
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment." ---Horace, 65 - 8 B.C.
[In outer space] you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a b***h." - Edgar Mitchell Apollo Astronaut
"The radio is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but usually create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas." Aldous Huxley, On Silence, 1946.
Money, (noun) A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)
"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down." - Mitch Hedberg
Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin
Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not. -Lao Tzu, philosopher (circa 600 BCE)
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz, author (1894-1985)
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. -Mark Twain
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Robert Service, writer
Each year tobacco use causes nearly 2.5 million premature deaths worldwide. Tobacco use also harms millions of innocent victims. Each year more than 3 million babies are born with birth defects caused by their mothers’ smoking. Nonsmokers who regularly inhale secondhand smoke have much higher rates of respiratory illness and are three times more likely to die of lung cancer than those who do not inhale secondhand smoke. Smokeless tobacco is just as addictive as cigarettes, and users of smokeless tobacco have cancer rates up to fifty times higher than those who do not use tobacco. (See James O. Mason, “I Have a Question,” Ensign, Sept. 1986, 59-61.)
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. -Spanish proverb
Think about this:
a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is
120,000.
c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (US Dept. of
Health & Human Services) Then think about this:
a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age
groups) is 1,500.
c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times
more dangerous than gun owners. FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS
A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban
doctors
before this gets out of hand. As a public health
measure I have withheld the
statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could cause
people to seek medical attention.
1. If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
2. Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often.
3. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. It ain't the jeans that make your butt look fat.
5. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
8. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government
program.10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the
trip.11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so
good.13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the
waist change places.18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
19.. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three
weeks before you need it.20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a
mistake when you make it again.22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
25. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
Government
1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself -Mark Twain
2) I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself
up by the handle. -Winston Churchill
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. - G. Gordon Liddy
5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. - Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
9) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - Ronald Reagan (1986)
10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. - P.J. O'Rourke
12) In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire (1764)
13) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)
14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain (1866)
15) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it. - Unknown
16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan
17) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill
18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain
19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress. - Mark Twain
21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
22) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson