Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my readers, who will see in the tell-tale compression of the pages before them, that we are all hastening together to perfect felicity.

Jane Austen

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

Ken Thompson

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Tina Yothers

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Laura Bush

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

George Orwell

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Douglas Wilson

A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Honore de Balzac

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Cicero Pro Ligario

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Hariold Lowman