The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media: "'All science is either physics or stamp collecting.'" Ernest Rutherford
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I
admire."
-Winston Churchill
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
- Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries
with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a
reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner (about Ernest
Hemingway)
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from
big words?" -
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no
time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of
any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't
it."
- Groucho Marx
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter
saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his
friends." -Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new
play, bring a friend...if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second...if
there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in reply
