Quotes: 18th September 2008

[Stephen]

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
-- Katharine Whitehorn

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III