"I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft."

-- George Eliot

#Brain Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Mathematics Quotes

“It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves”
“Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.”

Source : 'To His coy Mistress' (1681) l. 1
“No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.”
“Hatred is love frustrated.”
“Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.”

Source : "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.
“I just keep pinching myself that that's my wife.”
“The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.”
“Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.”

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