“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) Irish writer and dramatist
Vergil in Averno (1987)
“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) Irish writer and dramatist
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
From his 1971 World Series MVP acceptance speech, discussing his sometimes strained relationship with manager Danny Murtaugh, as quoted in "Pittsburgh's Clemente Honored"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“[F]inancial markets can be considered one of the great wonders of the world.”
Henry Kaufman (1927) American economist
On Money and Markets (2000)
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Letter to California student E. Holzapfel (March 1951) Einstein Archive 59-1013, p. 57
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
“Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms