“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
– Herman Melville


Thoughts of an old curmudgeon
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
– Herman Melville

“What the world needs are more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.”
– Oscar Levant

“What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”
– Nora Ephron

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
– Bob Dylan

“There is so much to be said for modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance in the community.” – Oscar Wilde

“A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.”
– Frank Westheimer

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.”
– Erma Bombeck

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
– Stanislaw J. Lec

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
– H. L. Mencken

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler they consider god-fearing and pious.”
– Aristotle
