English Quotes

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Life is wasted on the living.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?