| A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1755 - 1826
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| A small garden, figs, a little cheese, and, along with this, three or four good friends; such was luxury to Epicurus. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844 - 1900
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| A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milks leap toward immortality. - Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play (1957)
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| What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? - Bertolt Brecht, 1898 - 1956
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| Do something wonderful; people may imitate it - Albert Schweitzer, theologian, physician
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| Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order - John Adams, 2nd US president
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| Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts - William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice
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| All progress means war with society. -
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| As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. -
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| If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -
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| Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. -
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| The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -
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| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- All from George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950
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| Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment - Rita Mae Brown, author
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| Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it - Horace Mann, educator
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