the amorphous androgynous

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. ~Isaac Barrow



If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness. ~Carrie Latet



For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason



The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~Author Unknown



The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. ~Boris Pasternak



We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory. ~Evelyn Loeb



I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854



He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. ~Albert Einstein



What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike



When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ~Edith Evans



Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ~Christian Nevell Bovee



Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you. ~W. Somerset Maugham



America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ~Sigmund Freud



Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955



If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. ~Kahlil Gibran



An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb



The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~Lord Chesterfield The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~Lord Chesterfield



This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. ~Taylor Caldwell



The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960