"If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity."
      - Umberto Eco (1929-), Foucalt's Pendulum

      "A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
      - Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958)

      "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
      - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

      "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
      - Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956), Chessmaster
     

      "The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't."
      - Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
    
      "A great many people think they are thinking when they are acutally rearranging their prejudices."
      - William James (1842-1910)

    
      "I think it would be a good idea."
      - Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
    
 
      "What do you take me for, an idiot?"
      General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy

      "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
      - Voltaire (1694-1778)
    
      "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
      - Proverb
    
 "A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood."
      - George S. Patton (1885-1945), US Army General
     

      "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
      - Proverb

      "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
      - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
   

      "In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
      - Dereke Bruce
     

      "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
      - Yogi Berra (1925-)

      "Wit is educated insolence."
      - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

     
      "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
      - Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 
      "When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
      - Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
    
      "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
      - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
     
"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."
      - John Ruskin (1819-1900)
     
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
      - Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
    
      "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."
      - Perelman

      "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
      - Derek Bok (1930-), Harvard University President
     

     "The average person thinks he isn't."
      - Father Larry Lorenzoni