Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Every civilizaiton must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscience intention of the collectivity. (Tleilaxu Theorem);"Frank Herbert

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; 'I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.'

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.

Science is organized knowledge.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; ''I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools.

Time: that which man is always tring to kill, ends in killing him.

We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.