You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Oscar Wilde

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Frederick Koenig

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

Daniel Webster

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Louis Agassiz

If we give you a pistol, will you fight for the Lord? But you can't kill the Devil with a gun or a sword! Will you swear on the Bible? I will not! said he, For the truth is more holy than the book, to me.

Sydney Carter

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Bernard Meltzer

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

George Herbert

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

Aristotle

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Cathy Guisewite