The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery
War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. After dinner, the men moved into the living room. I explained to the professor that this was Rosss way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. – James Thurber