I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

Jeffrey Kluger

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Bertrand Russell

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

John James Audubon

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Proverb

Human beings used to be molecules which could do many, many different sorts of dances, or decline to dance at all --as they pleased. My mother could do the waltz, the tango, the rumba....

Kurt Vonnegut

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Integrity is not something that you should have to think about...nor consider doing...but something in the heart that is already done.

Doug Firebaugh

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

William J. Clinton

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Francis Picabia