"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Science Quotes #Men Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.”

Source : "Is Iraq a True Threat to the US?". Boston Globe, July 2002.
“Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.”
“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.”

Source : Julianna Baggott (2001). “Girl Talk”, p.232, Simon and Schuster
“There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.457, Macmillan
“And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at....”
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.”
“Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?”
“Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!”

Source : "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

You may also like:

Harold Laski
Economist
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet
James Russell Lowell
Poet
James Thomas Fields
Publisher
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poet
Joseph Lister
Surgeon
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
William C. Bryant
Poet