"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Running Quotes #Memories Quotes #Water Quotes

“Every last word is contagious,”
“It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.”
“there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.”
“It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.”
“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.”
“I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.”

Source : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books
“Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?”
“South Wales is a hub of aviation.”

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