Galileo:
The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo:
The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
James Russell Lowell:
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
Bruce Feirstein:
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Elbert Hubbard:
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
"If a man's wit be wandering, .....................................
let him study the mathematics."
Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625
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Satire lies about literary men while they live .................................
and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet),
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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, .........................................
hope for tomorrow."
Anon.
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Facts do not cease to exist ......................................
because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley
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We do not stop playing because we grow old................................
We grow old because we stop playing.
Anon.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, ..................................
I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
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"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, ..............................
easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
Anon.
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"Facts do not cease to exist .........................................
because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley
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"Practice ..................................................
is the best of all instructors."
Publilius Syrus
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"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. .......................
Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."
Fats Domino
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, ..................................
the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
Peter Ustinov
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. ......................................
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
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"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven,..........................
it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
-- Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
Not everything that can be counted counts, .............................
and not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein
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"If you want to test your memory, ............................................
try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."
-Rotarian
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"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; .................................
he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
Chinese Proverb
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For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. ...
We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.
Woody Allen
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind .............................
that is not going to last
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Fortune knocks but once, .......................................
but misfortune has much more patience."
Laurence J. Peter
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