" Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work "
-Gallagher

" Library: Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds "
- Richard Armour

" It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it "
- Arnold Tonybee

" The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past "
-Robertson Davies

" All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure "
- Sydney Smith


" At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide "
- Scott

" Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody "
-Benjamin Franklin

" Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything "
- Sydney Smith

" The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others "
- Bertrand Russell

" Where facts are few, experts are many "
-Donald R Gannon

" Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time "
- Norman Ford

" Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby "
- Anamica

" The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment "
-Dorothy Nevill

" Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth "
- Jerold Panas

" We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything "
- Thomas A Edison