Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind- bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument follows:

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

He who writes with no misspelled words has prevented a first suspicion on the limits of his scholarship or, in the social world, of his general education and culture.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.

Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.

Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. [If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.]

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought, and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon to be created." "This is true," He replied.

Go ahead... make my day.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated that their client has not spoken with Roberts for several years. Off the record, God has stated that "If I had w

I have a very strange feeling about this...

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one.

The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

CF&C stole it, fair and square.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behin

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

"You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you fit to hear his view of things?" "Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming you have integrit

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.

Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Whatever doesn't succeed in two months and a half in California will never succeed.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.

The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was cons

He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear.

"She said, `I know you ... you cannot sing'. I said, `That's nothing, you should hear me play piano.'"

I am America's child, a spastic slogging on demented limbs drooling I'll trade my PhD for a telephone voice.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

VII. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot. This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's surface to

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality. All proffered samples of learning must go to the same ass

If you want divine justice, die.

The Worst Car Hire Service When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck as a joke. Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California. He put on a cap and lo

"What was the worst thing you've ever done?" "I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me... the most dreadful thing."

To generalize is to be an idiot.

The ultimate game show will be the one where somebody gets killed at the end.

During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity,; in both, superstition, bigo

The human instinct to censor thrives, as it always will, living in irrepressible conflict with the human instinct to speak. Outrage, self-righteousness, and paranoia feed the maw of censorship. Squelching speech, however, never reduces society's net

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

Eighteen goddess-like daughters are not equal to one son with a hump.

But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soo

"It don't matter, Sail, ... Could be worse. The fam'ly might be donatin' the proceeds to the Cath'lic Church, or the Mormons or somethin'. One cult's the same another."

It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom.

We are what we pretend to be.

Don't everyone thank me at once!

I'm glad I was not born before tea.

Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Ever get the feeling that the world's on tape and one of the reels is missing?

My band career ended late in my senior year when John Cooper and I threw my amplifier out the dormitory window. We did not act in haste. First we checked to make sure the amplifier would fit through the frame, using the belt from my bathrobe to meas

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers.

"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors."

The Worst Jury A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the remotest clue what was happening. The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any

I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do?

What a bonanza! An unknown beginner to be directed by Lubitsch, in a script by Wilder and Brackett, and to play with Paramount's two superstars, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert, and to be beaten up by both of them!

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

... difference of opinion is advantagious in religion. The several sects perform the office of a common censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity,

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!

Men's skin is different from women's skin. It is usually bigger, and it has more snakes tattooed on it. Also, if you examine a woman's skin very closely, inch by inch, starting at her shapely ankles, then gently tracing the slender curve of her cal

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.

The more the merrier.

The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.