funny math quotes

The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money. ~Author Unknown



Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ~Ellen Frankfort



"That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did." ~J.K. Rowling, "The Missing Mirror," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007



It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945



Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that exists in the world. ~Karen Hamaker-Zondag



They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career. ~W.E. Orchard



Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949



Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. ~Llewelyn Powys



Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy. ~John Northbrooke



While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda



Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. ~Terri Guillemets



In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. ~Rita Mae Brown



The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923



Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. ~Ken Wilbur



Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ~George-Louis de Buffon



You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.' ~Stephen Covey



Quit yourselves like men, and fight. ~I Samuel 5:9



Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. ~Bion, "Water and Land Animals," Plutarch