[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Better beware of the newly deadOf the white-handed ghostAnd the brightness of these lamps . . .

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

How about this, have you ever farted so hard you shivered?

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.