Categories Starting with “A”

“Thrift is of great revenue.”

— Cicero

“Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.”

— Seth Shostak

“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.”

— Buzz Aldrin

“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”

— J. K. Rowling

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

— Mark Twain

“The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Veterans Administration is a scandal. It's corrupt, and what's going on is a disgrace. And, believe me, if I win, if I become president, that will end. The veterans will be treated properly.”

— Donald Trump

“When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

— Carl Sagan