Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
From Stephen Leacock
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
It may be those who do most, dream most.
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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