I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler British (Hungarian-born) author (1905 - 1983) Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. Will Rogers US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. Samuel Butler English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. Sir Francis Bacon English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world. G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie. J.D., "Heathers" As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887. ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis" Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) |