Maurice Bigelow quotes

  • Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.
    -- Maurice Bigelow

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  • Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

  • I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

  • Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

  • If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

  • Brains first and then Hard Work.

  • The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

  • That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

  • It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

  • ...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

  • Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.