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Famous As: One of the Greatest Playwrights of the 'Victorian Era' Born On: October 16, 1854 Died On: November 30, 1900 Born In: Dublin, Ireland Died At Age: 46 The heart was made to be broken You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth The very essence of romance is uncertainty I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught I can resist anything except temptation A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them To define is to limit All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it

Famous As: Children's Author And Illustrator Born On: March 2, 1904 Died On: September 24, 1991 Born In: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States Died At Age: 87 The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish! This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here! Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.. When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done. Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space. My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up! Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?' Good call. You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not! I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do. I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go! My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold. Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night. For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests. So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!

Famous As: Children's Author And Illustrator Born On: March 2, 1904 Died On: September 24, 1991 Born In: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States Died At Age: 87 And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all! It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that’s because he’s a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights. Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book I meant what I said and I said what I meant With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read. You are you that is truer than true It is better to know how to learn than to know. It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all. Oh, the thinks you can think! If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too. I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too. Everything stinks till it’s finished. It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.

Famous As: Children's Author And Illustrator Born On: March 2, 1904 Died On: September 24, 1991 Born In: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States Died At Age: 87 Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more! I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent! Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! Only you can control your future You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good. I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. Be awesome! Be a book nut! I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone. You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room Think and wonder, wonder and think So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm! I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues. Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how. Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.... I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

Famous As: Children's Author And Illustrator Born On: March 2, 1904 Died On: September 24, 1991 Born In: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States Died At Age: 87 Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go A person's a person, no matter how small Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not Being crazy isn't enough Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope Why fit in when you were born to stand out? I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way! How did it get so late so soon? If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too. Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere! All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

Famous As: Developer of Theory of Relativity Born On: March 14, 1879 Died On: April 18, 1955 Born In: Ulm, Germany Founder / Co Founder: Olympia Academy Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand I love Humanity but I hate humans You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions." (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am. Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none The only real valuable thing is intuition My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind When the solution is simple, God is answering

Famous As: Developer of Theory of Relativity Born On: March 14, 1879 Died On: April 18, 1955 Born In: Ulm, Germany Founder / Co Founder: Olympia Academy However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship I never think of the future - it comes soon enough The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different

Famous As: Developer of Theory of Relativity Born On: March 14, 1879 Died On: April 18, 1955 Born In: Ulm, Germany Founder / Co Founder: Olympia Academy Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work Out of clutter, find simplicity I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Nothing happens until something moves Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things Imagination is the highest form of research God does not play dice with the universe Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty

Famous As: Developer of Theory of Relativity Born On: March 14, 1879 Died On: April 18, 1955 Born In: Ulm, Germany Founder / Co Founder: Olympia Academy Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be Love is a better master than duty. Time is an illusion It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Famous As: Developer of Theory of Relativity Born On: March 14, 1879 Died On: April 18, 1955 Born In: Ulm, Germany Founder / Co Founder: Olympia Academy The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Famous As: Developer of Theory of Relativity Born On: March 14, 1879 Died On: April 18, 1955 Born In: Ulm, Germany Founder / Co Founder: Olympia Academy You never fail until you stop trying. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. Creativity is intelligence having fun. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Famous As: Developer of Theory of Relativity Born On: March 14, 1879 Died On: April 18, 1955 Born In: Ulm, Germany Founder / Co Founder: Olympia Academy Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones

Famous As: Developer of Theory of Relativity Born On: March 14, 1879 Died On: April 18, 1955 Born In: Ulm, Germany Founder / Co Founder: Olympia Academy Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity Never memorize something that you can look up A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe 2. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle 3. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world 4. If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself 5. If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.