The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley
There is nothing stable in the world, uproar's your only music.
John Keats
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
Milton Friedman
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Gustave Flaubert
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
Mark Twain
For me politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein
