Quotaria

"I have never made but one prayer to God,
a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies
ridiculous.' And God granted it."
- Voltaire

Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that
everything is beautiful, including what
is ugly, everything good, especially the
bad, and everything right that is wrong.
- Ambrose Bierce

You are not permitted to kill a woman who
has wronged you, but nothing forbids you
to reflect that she is growing older every
minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
- Ambrose Bierce

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to
be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion.
It's less than the national deficit! We used to
call them astronomical numbers. Now we should
call them economical numbers."
- Richard Feynman

"Always and never are two words you
should always remember never to use."
- Wendell Johnson

"The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce, and gives
it some of the grace of tragedy."
- Steven Weinberg

Quotes

"There was a time when we expected nothing of our
children but obedience, as opposed to the present,
when we expect everything of them but obedience."
- Anatole Broyard

"I grew up in Europe, where
the history comes from."
- Eddie Izzard

"If living conditions don't stop improving
in this country, we're going to run out of
humble beginnings for our great men."
- Russell P. Askue

"All television is children's television."
- Richard P. Adler

"Where facts are few, experts are many."
- Donald R. Gannon

"With or without religion, you would have good
people doing good things and evil people doing
evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg