cute quotes on relationships

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. ~Carl Boyer, 1949, calculus textbook


The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle


A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ~Raymond Hitchcock


Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ~Mitch Kapor, variation of a quote by Jerome Weisner (Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.)


God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him. ~Pope Xystus I, The Ring


Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Only in death are we no longer part of Project Mayhem. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 28


The Internet is the most powerful magnifier of slack ever invented. ~Author Unknown


Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Coren


A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou


Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust


Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors. ~Paul O'Neil


One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa


Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. ~Katherine Anne Porter


For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~Lily Tomlin


Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. ~Bertrand Russell


Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ~Daniel 5:27


I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. ~Astrid Alauda


Skipping turns your legs into built-in pogo sticks. ~Jessi Lane Adams