Arthur Porges quotes
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“"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."”
-- Arthur Porges
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“Don't eat a mushroom stem and see colors, eat the whole bag and see GOD”
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Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VIII, Chapter 9, 1735.
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Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan
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“A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”
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