Selected Quotes

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. "
   --Mark Twain

"To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. "
   --Ludwig van Beethoven

"I remembered how Albert Camus talks about the concept of resistance. The idea is that if you see that you cannot win, do everything in your power to resist. And that memory gave me the determination I needed. "
   --Ding Liren, World Chess Champion 2023-, https://english.elpais.com/sports/2023-05-02/ding-liren-world-chess-cha…

"Horses sweat. Men perspire. Women glow.
Lol, when I said something about a sweaty summer day.  I was glowing thru my t-shirt. "
   --Theron Marcus Vining, Said to his daughter one sweaty summer day when she was "glowing" through her t-shirt 

"God gives us a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one at a time  "
   --Robin Williams

"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. "
   --Mark Twain

"Coco: But idiots are hard to find, I should think. Baron Philippe de La Tour-La Tour: Oh no, not in the scientific world. "
   --Topaze [1933], https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024684/quotes?item=qt0226833

"Jenny Halsey: You are a good man. Nick Morton: You don't know that. Jenny Halsey: Yes, I do. There's good man inside of you fighting to come out. You saved my *life*. You gave me the only parachute without thinking. Nick Morton: [taken aback] I thought there was another one. "
   --The Mummy (2017), The Mummy (2017), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2345759/quotes?item=qt3445147

"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles. "
   --Sir William Henry Bragg, in Electrons & Ether Waves : being the twenty-third Robert Boyle lecture, on 11th May 1921, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. 11.

"Jesus H Christ "
   --Theron Marcus Vining, Dad had just the one go-to curse, and when he used it you knew he was serious and gave him a wide berth

"After dinner, Rita turned to Theron and said: you missed your chance. Theron: Chance to what (of course he replied). Rita: Chance to avoid growing old. The  only way to avoid growing old is to die young, and you missed your chance on that one. "
   --Theron Marcus Vining, circa Theron's 65th birthday, 1979 in Gainesville, FL

"Get over it "
   --Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, After winning an election in 1994 despite being videotaped using and convicted of using crack

"It's in the script "
   --Theron Marcus Vining, His response while watching something on TV, when a character does something foolish and his daughter asks aloud "why would anyone do that?"

"Don’t take moderation too far, moderation should not be taken to extremes.” "
   --Theron Marcus Vining

"The Irish have no culture. "
   --Theron Marcus Vining, Despite tbe fact he married an Irish woman, and we now know his biological father was Irish. 

"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long. "
   --Martin Luther 1483-1546

"He who walks in the middle of the road gets run over by both sides "
   --Theron Marcus Vining, Faux Chinese Proverb

"Sex is the sewer drain of a healthy body, sir! Any use of the sexual act other than procreation is a waste of vital energy! Wasted seeds are wasted lives! "
   --Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

"The liver is the only thing standing between the smoker and death! Also certain other things have to be avoided... like, uh, feather beds, and romantic novels... and the, uh, touching of one's organs. Masturbation is the silent killer of the night! The vilest sin of self-pollution! It is the sin of Onan! "
   --Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

"The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious. "
   --Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? "
   --Theron Marcus Vining

"You have to have a heart to have an attack "
   --Billy Wilder, Said of Peter Sellers who suffered 8 heart attacks when he inhaled amyl nitrites (poppers) as a sexual stimulant

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. "
   --Grover Glenn Norquist, anti-tax lobbyist, Interview on NPR's Morning Edition, May 25, 2001

"I still have objections to the … beauty of quantum mechanics, but she is correct. "
   --Otto Stern, 1888-1969, German physicist and 1943 Nobel laureate in physics

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. "
   --Niels Bohr, Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper "Innovation in Physics"