Tobias G Smollett Famous Quotes



Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.


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We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)
Albert Einstein

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
Edward George BulwerLytton

Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull

"Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return."
Alexander Pope

A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse
William Shakespeare

"I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, 'If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.' Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."
Stephen Jay Gould

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
Lou Holtz

"In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness."
Norman O Brown