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• There is no royal road to geometry. -- Euclid
• Someone who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the first proposition, asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning these things?
  whereupon Euclid called his slave and said "Give him three-pence since he must make gain out of what he knows....
• If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
  -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile, Commenting on the Almagest, by Ptolemy....
• Geometry: what the acorn said after it grew up.
• Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "what for?" -- Steven Wrigh
• And Einstein said: If Euclid failed to kindle your youthful enthusiasm, then you were not born to be a scientific thinker.
• I can't believe it! You actually found a practical use for geometry." -- The Simpso
• The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from so expectant?
  'Sex,' said Frank Harris, 'is the gateway to life....
• I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...