Archimedes Famous Quotes
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
"Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth."
Archimedes Quotations
"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed."
David K Shipler
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."
J R R Tolkien
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch A jack-o'-lantern with a knife in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that, I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Bertrand Russell
"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."
Phillip C McGraw
"Lloyd When I met Mary, I got that old fashioned romantic feeling, where I'd do anything to bone her."
Dumb and Dumber
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.
Lord Thomas Dewar