Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Mae West

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Stephen Hawking

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection? If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

W. H. Auden

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Kathleen Turner

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

Proverb

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Henry David Thoreau

We have become like the most primitive Palaeolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information.

Marshall McLuhan

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

Rick Danko

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Charles H. Parkhurst

To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition.... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.

Heinrich Rohrer