My Small Boat

Stupid Pencil Maker
Some dummy built this pencil wrong,
The eraser’s down here where the point belongs,
And the point’s at the top - so it’s no good to me,
It’s amazing how stupid some people can be.

I love to doubt as well as know.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The Seven Ages.
The lives of three Wattles, the life of a hound.
The lives of three Hounds the life of a Steed.
The lives of three Steeds the life of a Man.
The lives of three Men, the life of an Eagle.
The lives of three Eagles the life of a Yew.
The lives of three Yews, The length […]

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

First Fig
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends–
It gives a lovely light!

Poor Huck was too distressed to smile, but the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man’s pocket, because it cut down on the doctor’s bills like everything.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

You took away all the oceans and all the room.
You gave me my shoe-size in earth with bars around it.
Where did it get you? Nowhere.
You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence.