How close men, despite all their knowledge, usually live to madness? What is truth but to live for an idea? When all is said and done, everything is based on a postulate; but not until it no longer stands on the outside, not until one lives in it, does it cease to be a postulate.

A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, And whom did you consult before coming to me? Only the village druggist, was the answer. And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you? asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.

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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Ovid

Dear Alec and Magnus,How are you? Everything's just fine here. Thanks for you postcard with the picture of the Taj Mahal. It looks nice. Disregard my last few postcards. I see I overdid it. To make it up to you, I'm going to redecorate Magnus's loft for free. -Izzy

Cassandra Clare

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Desiderius Erasmus

The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

Baz Luhrmann

Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

Stephen Wolfram

The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo, Radar says, I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.

John Green

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

J.K. Rowling

How do I work? I grope.

Albert Einstein

I love anything quiz related.

Natasha Hamilton