Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" - "Good G-!" cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, - "Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?
Laurence SterneRelated topics
care clock creation cry dear exclamation father good interrupt making man moderate mother question silly taking time voice wind woman worldRelated quotes
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. "Izzy,” she would say, "did you ask a good question today?” That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
John Dryden
