There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Cyril Connolly

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

Jerry Weller

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne Lafollette

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

Kevin Costner

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We can... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth of geometrical axioms and that no special geometrical visualization exists in mathematics.

Hans Reichenbach

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen