A poem is no place for an idea.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
- Blaise Pascal

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
- Frederick L Collins

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
- Albert Einstein

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- Oscar Wilde

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
- A. J. Liebling

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
- Blaise Pascal