There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

Johannes Stark

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Miguel de Cervantes

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Wilson Mizner

A book worth reading is worth buying.

John Ruskin

I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

Gary Vaynerchuk

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Elizabeth Gaskell

I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!

Charles Dickens

Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.

Rachel Hawthorne

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Charles Simmons

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Voltaire

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler