They Said...

Albert Einstein

• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Bertrand Russell

• There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
• Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
  

Calvin {& Hobbes}

• In my opinion, television validates existence.

Douglas Adams

• He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
• There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
  

George Bernard Shaw

• If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Henry David Thoreau

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
• Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Johann Sebastian Bach

• There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Mark Twain

• The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

M. K. Gandhi

• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
• I think it would be a good idea. -- when asked what he thought of Western civilization
  

Oscar Wilde

• At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

William Shakespeare

• My salad days, when I was green in judgment.
• A little more than kin, and less than kind.

Woody Allen

• It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
• I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

W. Somerset Maugham

• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
• She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.