quotes = new Array(400); authors = new Array(400); displayed = new Array(400); var ix // index to clear displayed[] var quno // current quotation index quotes[1] = "The world consists of two types of people. There are
" + "those who kick other people under the table and say nothing,
" + "and those who are constantly apologizing to table legs."; authors[1] = "I said that."; quotes[2] = "Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally
" + "distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it,
" + "that even those most difficult to please in all other matters,
" + "never desire more of it than they already possess."; authors[2] = "Decartes"; quotes[3] = "The deep
" + "Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
" + "'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
" + "Push off, and sitting well in order smite
" + "The sounding furrows, for my purpose holds
" + "To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
" + "Of all the western stars, until I die.
" + "It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
" + "It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
" + "And see the great Achilles, whom we knew."; authors[3] = "Tennyson (Ulysses)"; quotes[5] = "There is a demand nowadays for the sort of man who can make wrong appear right"; authors[5] = "Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)"; quotes[10] = "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he " + "
comes to think little of robbing; and from robbery he comes next " + "
to drinking, and Sabbath breaking, and from that to incivility and " + "
procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never " + "
know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from " + "
some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time."; authors[10] = "DeQuincey"; quotes[13] = "Don Pedro of Aragon: Officers, what offense have these men done?" + "

Dogberry: Marry, sir, they have committed false report; " + "
moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are " + "
slanders; sixth and lastly; they have belied a lady; thirdly, they " + "
have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves." authors[13] = "Shakespeare" quotes[14] = "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not!" authors[14] = "" quotes[16] = "Marge, don't discourage the boy. Weasling out of things is what
" + "separates us from the animals ... except the weasel." authors[16] = "Homer Simpson" quotes[18] = "Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young." authors[18] = "Samuel Johnson" quotes[20] = "Can't go out without my walking stick." authors[20] = "Leon Redbone" quotes[21] = "I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong." authors[21] = "Muhammad Ali" quotes[22] = "Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason?
" + "Why, if it prosper, then none dare call it treason." authors[22] = "Sir John Harington 1561-1612" quotes[24] = "An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." authors[24] = "Chesterfield"; quotes[26] = "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced
" + "and less able man." authors[26] = "Scott Elledge (on his retirement from Cornell University)"; quotes[26] = "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts
" + "working the moment you get up in the morning and
" + "does not stop until you get to work."; authors[26] = "Robert Frost"; quotes[28] = "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you
" + "hear but forgetting where you heard it." authors[28] = "Laurence J. Peter"; quotes[30] = "Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone" + '
A thousand critics shouting: "He\'s unknown!"' authors[30] = "Ambrose Bierce" quotes[32] = "You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd " + "
We ain't too pretty we ain't too proud" + "
We might be laughing a bit too loud" authors[32] = "Billy Joel" + " " + "(Only the Good Die Young)" quotes[33] = "Don't you know about the new fashion honey?" + "
All you need are looks and a whole lotta money." authors[33] = "Billy Joel" + " " + "(It's Still Rock and Roll to Me)" quotes[35] = "A little learning is a dangerous thing:" + "
Drink deep, or touch not the Pierian spring:" + "
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain," + "
And drinking largely sobers us again." authors[35] = "Alexander Pope" quotes[36] = "
Well, Crocodile Rockin'" + "
is something shocking" + "
when your feet just can't keep still." + "
I never knew me a better time" + "
and I guess I never will." authors[36] = "Elton John & Bernie Taupin" + " " + "(Crocodile Rock)" quotes[37] = "Oh you will not swell the rout" + "
Of lads who wore their honours out." + "
Runners whom reknown outran" + "
And the name died before the man." authors[37] = "A.E.Housman" + " (" + "To an Athlete Dying Young)" quotes[38] = "The influence of the clergy, in an age of superstition, might
" + "be usefully employed to assert the rights of mankind; but so intimate
" + "is the connection between the throne and the altar, that the banner
" + "of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people." authors[38] = "Gibbon" quotes[40] = 'Now laughing friends deride' + '
Tears I cannot hide, ' + '
So I smile and say,' + '
When a lovely flame dies' + '
Smoke gets in your eyes.' authors[40] = "Jerome Kern" quotes[41] = "A little bit of lovin'" + "
Makes everything right" + "
And I'm gonna see" + "
My baby tonight " authors[41] = "Buddy Holly" quotes[43] = "It may be true that people who are merely
" + "mathematicians have certain specific
" + "shortcomings; however, that is not the fault of mathematics,
" + "but is true of every exclusive occupation." authors[43] = "CF Gauss" quotes[53] = "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes.
" + "That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away – and barefoot." authors[53]= "Sarah Jackson" quotes[55] = 'Fibber, you\'re sharp as a marble today.' authors[55]= "Molly McGee" quotes[58]="The notion of a set is too vague for the continuum
" + "hypothesis to have a positive or negative answer." authors[58]='' + 'Paul Cohen' quotes[61]="Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. " authors[61]='Duke Snider' quotes[64]="Around 1916, I decided to apply myself to the study of
" + "Oriental literature. As I was reading with credulous enthusiasm
" + "the English translation of the great Chinese philosopher, I came upon
" + "this memorable passage: \"It matters little to a convict under a
" + "death sentence if he has to walk on the edge of a precipice; he has
" + "already given up living:\" To that phrase, the translator had
" + "appended a footnote, and indicated that his interpretation was to be
" + "preferred to that of a rival sinologist who had translated the same
" + "line this way: \"The servants destroy the works of art so as not to
" + "have to adjudicate on their merits and defects.\"" + "

At that point ... I did not read any further. A mysterious
" + "skepticism had crept into my soul." authors[64]="Jorge Luis Borges" quotes[65]="He was born on third base, and thinks he hit a triple. " authors[65]='Jim Hightower (re George Bush)' quotes[66]="When I am white, I win because I am white.
" + "When I am black I win because I am Bogulyubov." authors[66]="Bogulyubov" quotes[68]="Let's have some new cliches." authors[68]="Samuel Goldwyn" quotes[69]="Some editors are failed writers,
" + "but then, so are most writers." authors[69]="T. S. Eliot" quotes[70]="Egoist: A person of low taste, more
" + "interested in themselves than in me." authors[70]="Ambrose Bierce" quotes[72]="The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
" + "unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
" + "Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." authors[72]="George Bernard Shaw" quotes[73]="Please excuse the length of this letter;
" + "I do not have time to be brief." authors[73]="G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, or perhaps Blaise Pascal" quotes[75]="So far as I can remember, there is not one word
" + "in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." authors[75]="Bertrand Russell" quotes[77]="Mathematicians are like lovers... Grant a mathematician the least principle, " + "and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this " + "consequence another." authors[77]="Fontenelle" quotes[85]="If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were " + "standing on my shoulders." authors[85]="Hal Abelson" quotes[86]="It's not who you know, it's whom." authors[14] = "" quotes[87] = "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and " + "less able man." authors[87] = "Scott Elledge (on his retirement from Cornell University)"; quotes[88]="Do not be troubled by your difficulties with Mathematics, I can assure you mine are much greater." authors[88]="Albert Einstein " quotes[89]="I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that either." authors[89]="Jack Benny" quotes[91]="If you play only that piece, people will think you can play the violin." authors[91]="Sasha Lasserson" quotes[94]='"Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What\'s one and one and one ' + 'and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don\'t know," said Alice. "I lost count."' authors[94]="Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass)" quotes[96]="He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than illumination." authors[96]="Andrew Lang" quotes[97]="This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error, however, is not new." authors[97]="Clifford Truesdell (Mathematical Reviews 12, p. 561)" quotes[98]="A conjecture both deep and profound" + "
Is whether the circle is round." + "
In a paper of Erdös" + "
Written in Kurdish," + "
A counterexample is found." quotes[99]="We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others." authors[99]="la Rochefoucauld" quotes[102]="A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." authors[102]="George Wald" quotes[104]="Ignorant? Ha! I don't even know the meaning of the word." authors[14] = "" quotes[105]="With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil " + "people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." authors[105]="Steven Weinberg (1933 - )" quotes[106]="The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." authors[106]="George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)" quotes[107]="Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." authors[107]="Lily Tomlin" quotes[108]="What can you sit on in the day, lie on at night, and brush your teeth with in the morning?" + "

– a chair, a bed, and a toothbrush" authors[108]="Witold Pepinski" quotes[119]="I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." authors[119]="Mark Twain" quotes[121]="He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." authors[121]="Oscar Wilde" quotes[122]="Got Mole problems?
Call Avogadro 6.02 x 1023" authors[14] = "" quotes[123]="My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." authors[123]="Jack Nicholson" number=130