Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Lord Jeffrey

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.

Dan Buettner

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Bill Gates

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Wallace Stevens

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

Tom Colicchio

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Isaac Watts

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Douglas William Jerrold, A Land

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

E. O. Wilson

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

John Henrik Clarke

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

R. Buckminster Fuller