The expenditure of a middle-income, husband–wife family to raise one child from birth to age 17: $250,530.
(Estimated by the Department of Agriculture in 2005)
When given a choice between two theories, take the one that is funnier.
— Blore’s razor
To say yes to one thing requires that we say no to another.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
— Sir Edmund Hillary, among the first group of climbers to ever summit Mount Everest in May 1953.
I agree that two times two makes four is a splendid thing; but if we’re going to lavish praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes also a very charming little thing.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground