If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.