Nikolaj Højberg

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. – Oscar Wilde

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. – Sir William Osler

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. – Albert Einstein.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. – Arthur Ashe

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. – Dale Carnegie

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. – Cyril Connolly

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and ‘have fun’. – Phillip Lopate

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. – John Stuart Mill