"I quote others only the better to express myself."
        - Michel de Montaigne

I like quotations.   You like quotations.  We all like quotations.   I could easily fill up page after page after page with quotations that I find witty, amusing or relevant; instead, I've chosen to list ten quotations below that I think best sum up who I am and how I feel about the world.   Enjoy.
 
 

"People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
        - Logan Pearsall Smith

"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything."
        - Thomas Huxley

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
        - George Washington

"Few academic subjects are improved by being approached in a spirit of deadly seriousness. I suspect, in fact, that most of them can profit by a bit of kindly mockery, particularly if it is self-administered."
        - Barbara Mertz

"The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
        - Groucho Marx

"Beware of all enterprises that require fancy clothes."
        - Henry David Thoreau

"Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd."
        - Allan Goldfein

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
        - George Bernard Shaw

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
        - Bertrand Russell

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