The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

Stephen Hawking

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland”

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Douglas Adams

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C.S. Lewis

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.

Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Jane Austen, “Sense And Sensibility”

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Sir Winston Churchill

Churchill: “Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?”
Socialite: “My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course…”
Churchill: “Would you sleep with me for five pounds?”
Socialite: “Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!”
Churchill: “Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.”

Sir Winston Churchill

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive… but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

Mark Twain

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Bertrand Russell

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Stephen Hawking

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Brigham Young

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

Books may well be the only true magic.

Alice Hoffman

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

George Carlin, “When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?”

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Mark Twain

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Mark Twain