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- Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 3
- If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years, 1936
- China now, put on $250 billion, and they’re paying 25 percent on that. They’re paying billions and billions -- this has never happened to China, and I like China and I like President Xi a lot. I think he’s a friend of mine, he may not be a friend of mine anymore, but I think he probably respects -- from what I hear, if you look at Mr. Pillsbury, the leading authority on China. He was on a good show, I won’t mention the name of the show, recently, and he was saying that China has total respect for Donald Trump and for Donald Trump’s very, very large brain.
- Donald Trump (1946 - ), Press Conference, September 26, 2018
- I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
- Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit.
General: What does that make you? Bullwinkle: What else? An executive... - Jay Ward
- The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
- Unknown
- The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- Brains first and then Hard Work.
- Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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