Today Quotes
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.Isaac Newton
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.Wernher von Braun
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.J. Bartlett Brebner
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.Juvenal
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.Homer
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?Richard Feynman
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beecher
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."Sir Arnold Bax, Farewell my Youth (1943)
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.Ralph Waldo Emerson