put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights...

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890 And now be careful to be found a wise and faithful servant, and communicate the heavenly bread to your fellow servants without envy or idleness. Do not take up the vain excuse of your rawness of inexperience which you may imagine or assume. For sterile modesty is never pleasing, nor that humility laudable which passes the bounds of reason. Attend to your work; drive out bashfulness by a sense of duty, and act as a master... But I am not sufficient for these things, you say. As if your offering were not accepted from what you have, and not from what you have not. Be prepared to answer for the single talent committed to your charge, and take no thought for the test... For he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Give all, as assuredly you shall pay to the uttermost farthing; but of a truth out of what you have, not what you have not.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is a committee? ;A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. But it all sounds great in a campaign speech.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using against uncivilised tribes.' ********** Winston Churchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorising use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6 invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil in the last 100 years.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder.

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

Let the world slide. -The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1.