Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds
– Socrates
Science Quotes and Scientist Quotes
June 30, 2008Science Quotes
Quotes About Science
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 to the 12 to 1 against.
– Ernest Rutherford
Absurdity Quotes
June 29, 2008Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)
Achievement Quotes
June 29, 2008There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
- Havelock Ellis 1859-1939, British Psychologist
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
June 29, 2008Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.
– February 27, 1860 – Cooper Union Address
– Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
June 29, 2008America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
– Abraham Lincoln
Ability Quotes
June 29, 2008I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington
Absurdity Quotes
June 29, 2008The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
June 29, 2008Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.
– Abraham Lincoln
Famous Quotes
June 29, 2008Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense
– Mignon McLaughlin
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