"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."

-- Charles Churchill

#Pain Quotes #Farewell Quotes #Men Quotes

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
“English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.”
“Splendid couple - slept with both of them.”
“Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.”
“Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.”
“The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.”

Source : "Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence" by David Deutsch, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2012.
“After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.”
“April's rare capricious loveliness.”

Source : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1872). “Poems”, p.67

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