Quotes for Thought

A few intriguing quotations to tickle your brain:

§ "Of all the works we studied this semester, which did you like least, and to what flaw in your own character do you ascribe this dislike?" [Wonder Boys]

§ "You know what a bore is? Someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with companionship." [Oscar Wilde]

§ "Happiness is like a butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." [Nathaniel Hawthorne]

§ "If you simplify your English,.... when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself." [George Orwell, Politics and the English Language]

§ "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot." [Albert Einstein]

§ "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." [William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night]