Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
More quotes from Richard Adams
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Our children’s children will hear a good story.
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.