Activity

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. (Ian L. Fleming)

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

Dancing is silent poetry. (Simonides)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. (H. H. Munro (Saki))

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.(Napoleon Bonaparte)

His ignorance is encyclopedic (Abba Eban)

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. (E. E. Cummings)