John Aubrey quotes and words of wisdom |  | "He [Milton] was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ"s
College." | |  | Found in the topic Unsorted.
| | | "Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the
county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told
heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised
his father"s trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high
style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily
wherever they came." | | | Found in the topic Humor.
| | | "About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on
geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman"s library,
Euclid"s Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras"
Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:"
So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a
proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another,
which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively
convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry." | | | Found in the topic Mathematics.
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Interesting Quotes
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.Brian Aldiss
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.Henry Louis Mencken
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