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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.(Napoleon Bonaparte)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell. (Aldous Huxley)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. (George Bernard Shaw)

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdos)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

His ignorance is encyclopedic (Abba Eban)

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. (George Burns)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

I begin by taking.I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. (Frederick (II) the Great)