A city life for me!

We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

James Clerk Maxwell

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Tobias G. Smollett

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara de Angelis

This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Gerhard Kocher

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

James K. Polk

proclaimed Donne, , and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies.

Neil Gaiman

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.

Marshall McLuhan

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

Katharine Weber