Penguin Stumblings

Jean Paul Richter
"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

P. J. O'Rourke
"Never fight an inanimate object."

Charles Dickens
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."

Dag Hammarskjold
"For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes."

Henry David Thoreau
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

Groucho Marx
"I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks."

Blaise Pascal
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

Satchel Paige
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

Margaret Mead
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

Frank Lloyd Wright
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

Blaise Pascal
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

Anonymous
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."

"Ad astra per aspera" — a rough path leads to the stars.

Mignon McLaughlin
"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."

B. Russell
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Unkown
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.