Sunday, February 3, 2008

Miscellaneous quotations

Vienna, Austria - 2007




Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean



I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Werner von Braun



The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler



We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

Sir Arthur Eddington



Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato



Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.
Samuel Beckett



He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

Chinese Proverb



An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. Chesterton



Adventure is just bad planning.

Roald Amundsen



It's never too late to be who you might have been.

George Eliot



We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Christina Baldwin



When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France



It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson