Favorite Quotes

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare

 

"I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty." - Trollope

 

"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure." - Klein

 

"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words." - Reid

 

"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Gibbon

 

"Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England." - Sturt

 

"The harmonica is a great instrument." - Thielemans

 

"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders." - Gauss

 

"It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same." - Gibbs

 

"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best." - Hall

 

"A thief believes everybody steals." - Howe

 

"The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute." - Smith

 

"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor." - Kierkegaard

 

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." - Borne

 

"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst." - Hume

 

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." - Grahame