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- When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
- Roger Allen
- Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"
- Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
- The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
- When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
- In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
- There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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