Showing posts with label George Bernhard Shaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Bernhard Shaw. Show all posts

Friday, July 9, 2010

We may be able to Dodge an Elephant, but we Can't Fly

Disney - Dumbo the Flying Elephant (Explored)Image by Express Monorail via Flickr
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. – Baron de Montesquieu



The engineering is secondary to the vision. – Cynthia Ozick


Where the iron goes, there goes the rust. – Portuguese proverb


It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can’t a fly. – Josh Billings


We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. – Father John Culkin


Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry Daved Thoreau


Science is always wrong; it never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernhard Shaw