Franklin Pierce Adams

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American Author and Humorist

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Kaija Sabbah

If you consider a woman less pure after you've touched her maybe you should take a look at your hands.

William Congreve

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us…

Kelly Oxford

I'd like to fuck up as much as Columbus and have a day named after me.

Albert Einstein

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

W. H. Auden

We are all here on Earth to help others; what on Earth the others are here for I don't know.

Howard Aiken

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Carl Sagan

Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The Doctor

Me? I am the Doctor.

Dorothy Parker

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Mark Twain

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.

Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.