"If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints." Alfonso the Wise
"In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate." Franklin Pierce
"When I was nine I played the demon king in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster." William Henry Platt
"He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade." Arthur Marx
"Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down." Sathyanarayana Raju
"In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head."
"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes he asked whether he could do anything for the famous teacher. And Diogenes simply said, 'Just stay out of my light.'"