History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.