Merseburgi Quotes & Sayings

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret. — Charles Darwin

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. — Joey Skaggs

Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick. — Paul Halmos

Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family. — Jack Weatherford

Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence. — Kirsten Dunst

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation. — Monica Seles

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine. — Peter Schiff

With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show. — David Spade

Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on. — Daniel Ehrenhaft

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see. — William Ellery Channing

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom. — Louis Hoffman

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike. — Bill Dedman

She was a stubborn woman who needed a good spanking, and not of the kinky variety. — Shelly Crane