[W]hat is good behavior? A lying varnish spread upon a bit of wood to make it pass for a cane. – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and
In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that hes in love with. The very next thing that happens is that hes swinging through the city. – John Dykstra
I declare,… a man who wishes to make his way in life could do nothing better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. – Sydney Smith, quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith: Volume I by his d
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. – Albert Einstein
