intelligence quotient bell curve

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. ~Mark Twain



A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. ~Charles Gordy



The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep. ~Victor Hugo



Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust



My heaviness comes from the heights. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. ~Gene Perret



All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. ~Plutarch



The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. ~Rupert Murdoch



Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations



A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensees et autres, 1942



Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? ~James Donovan



There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides. ~Philip Howard



There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown



The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism



There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. ~Seneca



Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977



Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~Graham Greene



The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. ~Leonardo da Vinci