intelligence quotient bell curve

The worst club in my bag is my brain. ~Chris Perry



Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey



Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin



The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess



The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. ~Elias Canetti



It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them. ~Charles Dickens



My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. ~William Sharp, The Lonely Hunter



Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle



What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound



Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. ~Robert Ingersoll



I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein



Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner



Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~Author Unknown



But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819



If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~Al Bernstein



The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock



Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin



A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~George Moore



Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain