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