He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things

Bertrand Russell

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Jessica Lange

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Ian Stewart

Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science.

Rodney Stark

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

I told my dentist I want a tooth to match the others. He gave my one with four cavities.

Rodney Dangerfield

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Scott Adams

I am a little concerned that some of the measures that are proposed may simply increase the number of consultants who are telling businesses what they already know.

Alasdair Morgan, speaking to The

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

E. M. Forster