. . . I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. (John Calvin)
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. (Robert Herrick)
Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was. (Jeff Melvoin)
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. (Francis Bacon)
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. (Will Durant)
Nature does not proceed by leaps. (Linnaeus)
'A merry Christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug' (Charles Dickens)
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. (Rene Descartes)
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings. (Carl Sandburg)
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. (Don Hirschberg)
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay. (Millard Fuller)
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. (Jacquelyn Mitchard)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. (Tom Stoppard)
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. (Wilson Mizner)
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light. (N. P. Willis)
Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. (Scarface)
The only successful substitute for brains is silence. (Unknown)
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. (Konrad Lorenz)
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. (Hannah Arendt)