George Iles Famous Quotes
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
George Iles Quotations
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
"Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible."
William Faulkner
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P Whipple
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
"And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)"
Walt Whitman
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams
"Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair."
Thomas Hobbes
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Sam Ervin
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire