Henry Beetle Hough Quotes

#1. But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.

Agatha Christie

#2. Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.

Donald A. Barclay

#3. I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.

Albert Einstein

#4. We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#5. The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

Steven Pinker

#6. If you can't stop the waves, go sailing.

Margaret Atwood

#7. ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

Ambrose Bierce