Berlinghoff Math Quotes & Sayings

When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart. — Augustus William Hare

When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution. — Dada Bhagwan

Sorrow makes men sincere. — Henry Ward Beecher

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. — Jim Rohn

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better. — Christine Baranski

Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally reserved for a relatively few men who can afford them or qualify via formal rank. For eons and eons, most marriages have been monogamous, even though most societies haven't been — Robert Wright

I'm very damn wet!' he said aloud to the sundial. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere. — Jenny Eclair

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism. — David Foster Wallace

Chicago is the proverbial middle child of large U.S. cities. Some might consider this analogy only in reference to Chicago's geographic location in the middle of the country. However, the analogy is multifaceted; like most middle children and like books between elaborate bookends, Chicago can sometimes be easy to overlook. It is smart and genuine, but it is always compared, for better or for worse, to its older and younger siblings, New York and Los Angeles. It's the less notorious but smarter sister to New York; it's the less ostentatious but considerably more genuine sister to Los Angeles. — Penny Reid

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them. — Marcus Aurelius

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. — George Henry Lewes

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. — Rowan Atkinson

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. — Gloria Steinem

To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign. — Leonard Ravenhill