_Quotes

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Space

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Thomas Browne, in Vulgar Errors, as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roses

Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver. - The Bible, The Book of Proverbs 16:16 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wisdom

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. - Abigail Adams, in a letter to John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See (1990)

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. - Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Flowers

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. - John Hay 진정한 행운은 카드 게임에서 최고의 패를 쥐는 것이 아닙니다. 가장 운좋은 사람은 자리에서 일어나 집으로 갈 때를 아는 사람입니다. - 존 헤이