That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
Douglas Adams, "Life, the Universe, and Everything"

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Brooks Adams

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Jean Louis Agassiz

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle

[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Barbarella

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

We have deep depth.
Yogi Berra

We made too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac

Belladonna: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
Claude T. Bissell

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory. . .
A. A. Blasov

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
Robert Bloch

Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
Ashleigh Brilliant

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. Ashleigh Brilliant Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
William Ellery Channing

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartier

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill

It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.
J.W. Curran

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

Fans are interesting things. Rush fans just can't comprehend why the rest of  the world doesn't like Rush. Rem fans consider the rest of the world beneath their social level to notice. Kate Bush fans love the rest of the world, and the world loves them, but spend long nights plotting to knife one another.
Richard Darwin, "Gradenza"

I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Charles G. Dawes

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson

We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
R.W. Dickson

Get your cut throat off my knife.
Diane Diprima, "Nightmare Gallery"

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppresiion. It is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
W. O. Douglas

How often have I said to you that when you heve eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sherlock Holmes in "The Sign of Four" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890

The principle of maximum diversity operates both at the physical and at the mental level. It says that the laws of nature and the initial conditions are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible. As a result, life is possible but not too easy. Always when things are dull, something new turns up to challenge us and to stop us from settling into a rut. Examples of things which make life difficult are all around us: comet impacts, ice ages, weapons, plagues, nuclear fission, computers, sex, sin and death. Not all challenges can be overcome, and so we have tragedy. Maximum diversity often leads to maximum stress. In the end we survive, but only by the skin of our teeth.
Freeman Dyson, "Infinite in All Directions"

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Sir Arthur Eddington

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas Alva Edison

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein