Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none.
If you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.
Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
If you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector…and miss.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for—if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none.
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.