Citations edit
Chronologically, for no man can choose the day of his birth.
From Isaac Newton:
- "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."[1]
From Oscar Wilde:
- "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."[2]
From Albert Einstein:
- "Mache die Dinge so einfach wie möglich - aber nicht einfacher."
From Winston Churchill:
- Lady Astor: "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
- Reply: "If I were married to you, I'd drink it."
- "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."[3]
References edit
- ^ In a letter
- ^ The original passage is in "The Importance of Being Earnest" on page 9, when Jack says to Algernon: "That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple." Upon which Algernon replies: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossiblity!"
- ^ At Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House following the victory at El Alamein in North Africa, London, 10 November 1942