If you want to eat hippopotamus, you've got to pay the freight. ― some IBM guy

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ― Albert Camus

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably nottrue. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1949.

If you cannot convince them, confuse them. ― Harry S Truman

From the ice-age to the dole-agethere is but one concernand I have just discovered:some girls are bigger than otherssome girls are bigger than otherssome girls are bigger thanother girls' mothers ― The Smiths

Dealing with failure is easy: work hard to improve. Success is also easy tohandle: you've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ― George Wald