"I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
--King David Psalms 139:14

"Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind."
--Epicharmus Fragments 550 BC

"Is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works--that white light is made of colors, that color measures light waves, that trasparent air reflects light...? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it."
--Carl Sagan Skies of Other Worlds 1988

"Touch is both the alpha and omega of affection."
--William James Principles of Psychology 1890

"As lovers, we yearn to touch--to kiss, to stroke, to snuggle like spoons."
--David G. Myers Psychology
They put that in a a text book?!?

"When belly with bad pains doth swell,
it matters naught what else goes well."
--Sadi The Gulistan 1258

"Pain is increased by attending to it."
--Charles Darwin 1872

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere."
--Dr. Seuss One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

"It is in silence and not in commotion in solitude and not in crowds that God best likes to reveal Himself."
--Thomas Merton The Silent Life 1957
Can be applied to many things!

"The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession"
--Sherlock Homes in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear 1914

"A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right."
--Stephen Jay Gould Ever Since Dawn 1973

"A psychic is an actor playing the role of a psychic."
--Psychologist-magician Daryl Bern 1984

"The most eminent scientist, untrained in magic, is putty in the hands of a clever charlatan."
--Martin Gardner 1983

"There comes a point where one has to accept the message of the data, that absence of evidence is evidence of absence."
--Frank Colse Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion 1991

"I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me."
--Job 42:5

"I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious."
--Comedian Rita Rudner, 1993

"Sleep faster, we need the pillows."
--Yiddish proverb

"The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb will not be very sleepy."
--Woody Allen in the movie Love and Death 1975

"I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not."
--Philosopher Bertran and Russell, 1872-1970

"For what one has dwelt on by day, these things are seen in visions of the night."
--Menander of Athens, 342-292 PC fragments

"When I examed myself, and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
--Albert Einstein 1879-1955

"Learning is the eye of the mind."
--Thomas Drake Bibliotheca Scholastica Instructissima 1633

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
--Mark Twain

"O! This learning, what a wonderful thing it is."
--Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew 1597

"When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it is gone they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone."
--George MacDonald What's Mine's Mine 1886

"Memory is a great betrayer."
--Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin 1974