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Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. ~William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs


To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb


The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Astrid Alauda


Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret


History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. ~Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History


The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. ~Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871


Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. ~Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic


Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. ~George Bernard Shaw


All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ~Nicolas Chamfort


Gray hair is a blessing - ask any bald man. ~Author Unknown


America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. ~Laurence J. Peter


I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. ~Abraham Cowley


No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. ~Brendan Francis


Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ~John Burroughs


Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb


Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe. ~Luther Burbank, Why I Am an Infidel


Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody. ~Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923


No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as large as man. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays