If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930))

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. (J. Paul Getty)

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. (George Bernard Shaw)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. (unknown)

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. (Saint Thomas Moore)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

Black holes are where God divided by zero. (Steven Wright)

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance (Oscar Wilde)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)