Quotations and notations

             



                                    QUOTES

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         "Feminine  Beauty.  Female  pulchritude,  being   qualitative
         rather than quantitative, does not lend itself to records. it
         has been  suggested that if the face of Helen of Troy (c.1200
         BC) was capable of launching 1,000  ships,  then  a  unit  of
         beauty  sufficient  to  launch  one  ship  should be called a
         millihellen."  - from the Guiness Book of World Records, 1988
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         "To  punish me for my contempt for authority, Fate made me an
         authority myself." - Albert Einstein
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         Famous last words: The last thing Albert Einstein said was in
         German,  but  the  only  person  in the room, a nurse, didn't
         speak German, so she couldn't recall for the  world  what  he
         said.
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         "It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things  that
         people might remember." - Eugene McCarthy
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         "The believer is happy - the doubter is wise." - unknown
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         "I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: Cut it."  -  Alfred
         Hitchcock.
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               I don't know a lot about poetry, but the following line
         written  by  Julia A.  Moore gets my vote for worst published
         poem I have ever read:

                             While eating dinner,
                            This dear little child
                          Choked on a piece of beef.
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         Do you know the meaning of the word spoonerism? According  to
         Funk  &  Wagnalls  Standard  Desk  Dictionary  it means: "The
         unintentional transposition of sounds or of parts of words in
         speaking, as in 'half-warmed fish' for 'half-formed wish.'"
              This  word  was  named after Reverend William A. Spooner
         (1884-1930) who was the dean of New College, in  Oxford.   He
         evidently  had  a sort of speaking dislexia and became famous
         for many entertaining tangled sentences. For example, he told
         a groom at a wedding, "It is kisstomary to cuss  the  bride."
         Another time, he referred to Queen Victoria as "the queer old
         dean."
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         "Years ago my mother used to say to me, 'In  this  world  you
         must  be  oh  so  smart  or  oh so pleasant.' For years I was
         smart. I recommend pleasant." - James Stewart in Harvey
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         James Stewart wore the same hat in many different movies as a
         good luck charm.  If you look closely, in his  younger  days,
         he  wore  a  very  sharp hat, but in later movies, the hat is
         more and more worn out.
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             All  the  information  in  this  database   is   reliably
         calculated  from  or  based  on  what  others  have  written.
         However, you may wish to conduct your own  research  to  make
         absolutely sure of the facts.
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         Epitaph:  "Here lies an atheist - all dressed up and no place
         to go."
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         When Lavinia Warren, who  was  less  than  3  feet  tall  and
         weighed  less  than 30 pounds, along with her husband General
         Tom Thumb, who was only slightly larger, visited Abe Lincoln,
         who   always   considered   himself   too   tall,   President
         Lincoln proclaimed, "God likes to do funny things - here  you
         have the long and the short of it."
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         "Early  to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise."
                                - Dr. Scholl of Dr. Scholl's Foot Aids
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         One of the most helpful people  mankind  has  ever  seen  was
         Emile  Coue  (1857-1926)  of France. He told people to say to
         themselves 20 times in a row, twice a  day:  "Every  day,  in
         every  way,  I  am  getting better and better." This actually
         cured thousands of people of an assortment of minor and major
         ills.
             In  French  if you prefer, "Tous les jours, a tous points
         de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux."
             Try it, it can't hurt you (unless somebody overhears, but
         then  you  can do it silently), and it might just work to get
         you over the flu, a toothache, cancer, whatever is  bothering
         you.
             This is a serious  suggestion.   Scientists  have  proven
         beyond  doubt  that  people  can  improve their health with a
         positive mental attitude. In many hospitals, cancer  patients
         are  now  being  taught to mentally picture (or actually draw
         pictures of) their cells surrounding and eating tumors.
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         "Keep  your  eyes  wide  open  before  marriage and half-shut
         afterwards." - Ben Franklin
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         "If  you  want  a  picture  of  the  future,  imagine  a boot
         stomping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
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         "Knowledge isn't power until it's applied." - Dale Carnegie
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         When asked about the possibility of an alien race taking over
         our world by force, Isaac Asimov answered:
             "The nearest intelligence to us is likely to be  as  much
         as  50  light-years away, and that is not an easy distance to
         cross. If a people could cross it, they  would  be  extremely
         advanced, and I think that a race far in advance of ourselves
         would  probably  also  have advanced in humanity and would be
         unlikely to act like barbarians."

         "...there are only two ways in which [population] growth  can
         stop.   Either  the  death  rate  goes  up to match the birth
         rate, or the birth rate comes down to match the death  rate."
                                                        - Isaac Asimov
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         "Man  is  born  to  live  and not to prepare to live."
                    - Boris Pasternak, from the book, "Doctor Zhivago"
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         "I'm  seventy  percent accurate forty percent of the time."
                                           - Weatherman Willard Scott.
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         Undoubtedly, Henry Kissinger is more  familiar  with  foreign
         policy  and  foreign  geography than American geography. When
         invited to do the weather report one day  on  the  "CBS  This
         Morning"  tv  show, he presented a reasonable report, but had
         some difficulties pointing to  the  unmarked  cities  he  was
         mentioning  on  a  USA  map.  After awhile, he  told  the  tv
         audience, "I'm not pointing anymore, you figure it out."
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         You'll never guess who said this:
            "I  will  say  then  that  I am not, nor ever have been in
         favor of bringing about in any way the social  and  political
         equality  of  the  white  and black races - that I am not nor
         ever have been  in  favor  of  making  voters  or  jurors  of
         Negroes,  nor  of  qualifying  them  to  hold  office, nor to
         intermarry with white people; and I will say in  addition  to
         this  that  there  is a physical difference between the white
         and black races which I believe will  forever  forbid  the  2
         races  living  together  on  terms  of  social  or  political
         equality.  And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do
         remain together there must be the position  of  superior  and
         inferior,  and  I  as  much  as  any other man am in favor of
         having the superior position assigned to the white  race.   I
         say  upon  this  occasion that I do not perceive that because
         the white man is to  have  the  superior  position  that  the
         Negro should be denied everything."

         Here's a clue, he also said this:
         "My policy is to have no policy."

         Give up? It was President Abraham Lincoln!
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         "I  fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority
         of the President. I didn't fire him because  he  was  a  dumb
         son  of  a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the
         law for generals.  If it was, half to three-quarters of  them
         would be in jail." - Harry S Truman
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         "The best test of a man is not how well he does the things he
         likes, but how well he does the things he doesn't like."
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         Mozart composed a very popular opera called "All Women Behave
         Thus."
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         A Conan Doyle never wrote, "Elementary, my dear Watson!"

         James Cagney never said, "You dirty rat."

         Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam."
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         "The frustrating reality, as far as medical  researchers  are
         concerned,  is  that  we already know that the living body is
         the  best  pharmacy  ever  devised.  It  produces  diuretics,
         painkillers,  tranquilizers, sleeping pills, antibiotics, and
         indeed everything manufactured by the drug companies, but  it
         makes them much, much better.  The dosage is always right and
         given  on  time; side effects are minimal or nonexistent; and
         the directions for using the drug are included  in  the  drug
         itself,  as  part of its built-in intelligence." - Dr. Deepak
         Chopra
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         "It  is  not  easy  to  see  how  the  more  extreme forms of
         nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth  in
         its  true  perspective  as  a  single small globe against the
         stars." - Arthur C Clarke
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         "The  reason  that  the  all-American  boy  prefers beauty to
         brains is that he can see better than he can think." - Farrah
         Fawcett-Majors