"Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain." Thomas Otway
  • Dr. Maurice Greene: "Well, Sir, but my anthem—what do you think of it?"
  • George Frederick Handel: "Oh your antum—ah—why I did tink it vanted air, Dr. Greene."
  • Greene: "Air, Sir?"
  • Handel: "Yes, air; and so I did hang it out of de vindow."
    (03/14/1681 – 04/14/1759)
    German composer
George Frederick Handel
"Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan."
"If you open that Pandora's Box, you never know what Trojan horses will jump out." Ernest Bevin
"Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one." Rachel Carson
"Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young." Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel
"There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud."
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. . . . Death does away with time." Simone de Beauvoir