General
We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.
[Oscar Wilde]

A ship in the harbor is safe,
but that is not what ships are built for.
[John A. Shedd]

Physics
A physicist is just an atom's way
of looking at itself.
[Niels Bohr]

The diagrams contains more truth
than the underlying formalisme.
[G. t'Hooft and M. Veltman 1973]

Alcohol
When I read about the evils of drinking,
I gave up reading.
[Henny Youngman]

Remember, I got more out of alcohol,
than alcohol got out of me.
[Whinston Churchill]

Statesmen
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
[Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)]

Forgive your enemies,
but never forget their names.
[John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)]

Blunders
We don't like their sound,
and guitar music is on the way out.
[Decca Rec. Co. rejecting The Beatles, 1962]

640Kb ought to be enough
for anybody.
[Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981]

Humor
Not only is God dead,
but just try to find a plumber on weekends.
[Woody Allen, 1935-]

There are no good girls gone wrong,
just bad girls found out.
[Mae West]

Grooks
Love while you've got love to give.
Live while you've got life to live.


Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by hitting back.
[Piet Hein, 1905-1996]

Latin
Sic transit gloria mundi.
(Thus Passes The Glory Of The World).
[Exclamatory phrase used at installations of popes]

Nemo solus satis sapit.
(Nobody alone knows enough).
[Plautus, Miles gloriosus]

Traveling
The World is like a book and those who
do not travel, read only the first page.
[St. Augustinus of Hippo, 354-430]

Traveling tends to magnify
all human emotions.
[Peter Hoeg]