How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.
If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.