1. Life is full of needle-hooks of experience which catch the attention when alrger matters are at stake, and they remain in the mind they are fogotten, so that in years later, it is a bit of gilding, or a certain smell , or the tone of clockt's striking which recalls one to a tragedy. --Evelyn Waugh
2. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with snse, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --Galileo Galilei
3. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. --James Thurber
4. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. --A. A. Milne
5. Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket? --Anon.