Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
No two persons ever read the same book. -- Edmund Wilson | |
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke | |
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. -- Edmund Burke | |
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke | |
I do not remember ever having seen a sustained argument by an author which, starting from philosophical premises likely to meet with general acceptance, reached the conclusion that a praiseworthy ordering of one's life is to devote it to research in mathematics. -- Sir Edmund Whittaker, "Scientific American", Vol. 183 |