Raymond Smullyan Famous Quotes



"Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

"Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now."


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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
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Jean de La Fontaine

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
Dorothy Rothschild Parker

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"If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success."
Saint Francis de Sales

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.
Philip Skelton

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
Tom Masson

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)
Marcus Tullius Cicero