"It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point."

“Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.”

“An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.”

“If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.”

“A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.”

Source : Rick Hilles (2006). “Brother Salvage”, p.38, University of Pittsburgh Press

“I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.”

“They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.”

“Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field”

Source : "Electric Sheva" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

“Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”

Source : Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.312