James Clark Maxwell

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    There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
    —Eugenie Clark (b. 1922)

    Aw, it’s just like a woman. When the shootin’s all over and everything’s safe, they pass out.
    Griffin Jay, and Maxwell Shane (1905–1983)