Random Quotes
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Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.Ogden Nash
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.Georges Pomidou
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.Robert Louis Stevenson
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.Cicero
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Howard Scott, Economist
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.Oscar Wilde
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.Boris Pasternak
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.Sir Francis Bacon