I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas., S.J. Perelman,
The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow., Confucius, The Confucian Analects, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability., George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurorsthey terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident., Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan,
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. , Jean Jacques Rousseau, French political philosopher (1712 1778)
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors., Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)