One day as I came home early from work I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy, Hey buddy . . . why are you doing that? He said, Because you came home early.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

Mark Twain

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Bernard Berenson

We're on a mission from Glod.

Terry Pratchett

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

Timothy Keller

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Leonardo da Vinci

When someone from Faerie ever tells you something, you can see it - you can feel it - you believe it. For the true value of enchantment and its glamour, is in the imparting of a truth - by truth's own persuasion it makes itself real.

Gabriel Brunsdon

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.

Roy Romer

All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time.

David Bailey

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin