Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

John Keats

Excessive reservations and paralyzing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance, but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them.

Alois Alzheimer, Alzheimer

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that I shall never seea billboard lovely as a tree.Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Orison Swett Marden

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword

Samuel Johnson

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stephen Hawking

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Dont strew me with roses after Im dead. When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!

Thomas F. Healey

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

John Surtees

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

Henry Ward Beecher

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Jean Genet