Showing posts with label Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The limits of my language
mean the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying
of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas H. Huxley

"Autumn is a second spring
when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus


"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System,
it is now possible to travel from coast
to coast without seeing anything."
- Charles Kuralt

"Never have more children
than you have car windows."
- Erma Bombeck

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Quotaria

"Reason has always existed, but
not always in a reasonable form."
- Karl Marx

"Lying increases the creative
faculties, expands the ego,
and lessens the frictions
of social contacts."
- Clare Booth Luce

"I'm living so far beyond my income that
we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings

"The United States is a nation of laws:
badly written and randomly enforced."
- Frank Zappa

"The case has, in some respects, been
not entirely devoid of interest."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint
the great ones to public office."
- Aesop