Boreal Access

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."

"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."

"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people."

"I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know."

"The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law."

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

"History is the short trudge from Adam to atom."

"There must be more to life than having everything."

"The higher the buildings, the lower the morals."

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

"Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted."

"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."

"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow."