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• The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
  Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well...
• The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with [you] and possess that quality of joy.
  -- Erica Jong...
• As still to the star of its worship, though clouded
  The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee....
• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
  -- John Webster (c. 1580-1625) -- The White Devil, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...