Statistical Variations Quotes & Sayings

The larch ... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood ... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way ... Further, its weight will not let it float in water. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I'm sorry, you see, I have no sense of direction. I've always had nightmares about getting lost. I believe I belong on another planet. — Charles Bukowski

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbours respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right. — Robert Owen

True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible. — Fanny Britt

It's hard to be serious in life. — P. J. O'Rourke

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint. — Don Pendleton

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life. — Leon Brown

Well beloved subjects, wee thought that the clergie of our realme had been our subjectes wholy, but now we have well perceived that they bee but halfe our subjectes, yea, and scarce our subjectes: for all the prelates at their consecration make an othe to the pope, clene contrary to the the that they make to us, so that they seme to be his subjectes, and not ours. — Henry VIII Of England