Todhunter Quotes & Sayings

To be struck twice by two different cyclones is unusual, to say the least, — Max Mayfield

Destiny strips at the Melon Patch. They're people Ted, try to keep 'em straight. — Barney Stinson

When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England. — Bertrand Russell

Until recently, I never realized to what degree the middle class is a moral, rather than an economic, entity, based less on status than on possessive, life-sustaining love. The moral middle class plays life by percentages, because that is the safest bet, and percentage play - in life as in tennis - is by definition conservative. — Andrew Todhunter

Fool's blood, king's blood, blood on the maiden's thigh, but chains for the guests and chains for the bridegroom, aye aye aye. — George R R Martin

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture. — Neneh Cherry

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected. — Yehuda Berg

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after. — Hesiod

Listening to your son after you've spent time with a girl will make you wonder when he became Jodie Foster in Nell. — Laurie Kilmartin

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset. — Isaac Todhunter

It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The author of the remark probably meant to assert that a man or a system may have become famous on the continent, while we are almost ignorant of the name of the man and the claims of his system. Perhaps, however, a wider range might be given to the assertion. An exploded theory or a disadvantageous practice, like a rebel or a patriot in distress, seeks refuge on our shores to spend its last days in comfort if not in splendour. — Isaac Todhunter

Life is too short to attend to other
men's work. It takes all my care and attention to look after mine own. — Amy Steedman

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life. — Guillaume-Chretien De Lamoignon De Malesherbes