Quote (#574)

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think
wrongly is better than not to think at all."
- Hypatia of Alexandria

"What do you take me for, an idiot?;"
General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970),
when a journalist asked him if he was happy

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice

"It is always easier to believe than to deny.
Our minds are naturally affirmative."
- John Burroughs

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
- Dan Quayle

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not,
at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it
with every weapon of communal stupidity."
- Robertson Davies