Olympiads Quotes

#1. Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as wisdom.

Anonymous

#2. Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads.

Dan Brown

#3. Doctors is all swabs.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

W. Averell Harriman

#5. For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

Felicity Kendal

#6. All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. Jesse is a good guy, although I don't understand the infatuation with the spandex he is always running around in.

Holly Hood

#8. Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#9. I live in paradise within the pages of a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Maya Angelou

#11. Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.

Stephen Kinzer