The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch …
The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
Quote, saying and phrase by: William Shakespeare
The planting of trees is the least self-…
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Thornton
The place where optimism most flourishes…
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry Havelock Ellis
The place where optimism most flourishes…
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Havelock Ellis
The place of the father in the modern su…
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand Russell
The pictures of airplanes flying into bu…
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
Quote, saying and phrase by: George Walker Bush
The physicist cannot simply surrender to…
The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches…. he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified… The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Albert Einstein
The physician can bury his mistakes, but…
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Frank Lloyd Wright
The point of philosophy is to start with…
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand Russell