Quotes by Authors - Page 68

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mike Russell
My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
Marcel Pagnol
In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F Kennedy
Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.
John Wolfenden
If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?
Calvin Trillin
If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.
Thomas Hobbes
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
Will Henry
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.
Kenneth Grahame
He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.
Sydney Smith
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.
Otto Friedrich
When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V.S. Pritchett
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Anonymous
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.
Anonymous
What some invent the rest enlarge.
Jonathan Swift
They say so is half a lie.
Thomas Fuller
Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases They fell because their peoples were not fit.
Rudyard Kipling
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
Sir William Blackstone
Rome was not built in a day.
Anonymous
The grandeur that was Rome.
Edgar Allan Poe
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
Antoine Bret
Man loves little and often woman much and rarely.
Anonymous
If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird
A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.
Dr. Joseph Collins
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Martin Vanbee
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Emily Post
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
Henry S. Haskins
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.
Elizabeth Smart
Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.
Mary Parker Follett
Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.
Alice Walker
When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.
B.C. Forbes
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
Henry Miller
Example has more followers than reason.
Christian Bovee
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
A good example is the best sermon.
Anonymous
If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird
Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud
As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Charles H. Fowler
If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.
Hilde Bigelow
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Tyron Edwards
It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
Jeanette Winterson
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Dare to be naive.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I love the challenge.
Nancy Lopez
You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.
Debbi Fields
I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.
Polly Adler
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain