Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. (Saint Thomas Moore)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let’s start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. (Edsgar Dijkstra)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)