201 quotes found
“The shrewd guess the fertile hypothesis the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.”
“The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.”
“It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.”
“It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.”
“We owe something to extravagance for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.”
“Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2 000 000 000 years asexual reproduction was the rule. You know if you were a creature you just separated into two clones.”
“Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500 000 000 years ago.”
“I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”
“I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”
“I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”
“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
“We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.”
“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”
“Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chim...”
“That’s what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.”
“It’s no secret that kids thrive when they have meaningful conversations with caring adults. But in our busy world, it’s not easy to find ways to make this happen, so I developed READ TOGETHER/DO TO...”
“In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nineteen one asks oneself this question; at thirty-nine we say, “I wish Fate hadn’t made me this sort...”
“Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I’m sure we haven’t seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.”
“So, what are you going to do about it?”"Watch this!""Oh, that’s just freaking great. ‘Watch this!’ The two most dangerous words in the English language. I’m getting out of here before lightning str...”
“... honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain’t that fucking attractive.”
