Favorite Quotes

"World history is a court of judgment." - Hegel

 

"Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life." - Betjeman

 

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." - Locke

 

"Elegance is inferior to virtue." - Shelley

 

"Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young." - March

 

"The fool inherits, but the wise must get." - Cartwright

 

"On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries." - Soddy

 

"Mathematics is the music of reason." - Sylvester

 

"Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places." - Renault

 

"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face." - Koestler

 

"It's the right idea, but not the right time." - Dalton

 

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth." - Sitwell

 

"We soon believe the things we would believe." - Ariosto

 

"If you want to be happy, be." - Tolstoy

 

"It is my nature to thin where others read." - Sydenham

 

"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth." - Lawrence

 

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - Mencken

 

"People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it." - Evans

 

"A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other." - Gould

 

"Without stones there is no arch." - Polo