Matthew Fontaine Maury quote: "The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled."

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
MAURY AMSTERDAM

Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. ...
MAURY YESTON

I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound ...
MAURY YESTON

I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I...
MAURY YESTON

The bond market had been worried that we were near full employment and wage pressure would pick up a...
MAURY HARRIS

I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.
MAURY POVICH

Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical...
MAURY YESTON

Certainly, there was nothing in Mr. Greenspan's testimony to suggest he has seen any strong prelimin...
MAURY HARRIS

Jane Whitney.
MAURY POVICH

Paul has been a very integral part of the success of this program. We are energized about the upcomi...
MAURY POVICH

His leads would be: The Redskins came on the field in their colors, burgundy, gold and Caucasian, .....
MAURY POVICH

Every show is a mess at its first preview. No one's had enough time to rehearse in costumes, tra...
MAURY YESTON

For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To...
MAURY YESTON

Rodgers & Hart had a few flops before they clicked. You know, it happens. I don't know anyon...
MAURY YESTON

The consumer numbers look fairly strong, although at least some of that strength is likely to fade i...
MAURY HARRIS

Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets. We believe ... that Fed o...
MAURY HARRIS

You typically see a rebound in the labor force when the economy starts to recover. But because busin...
MAURY HARRIS

That low inflation rate leaves the Fed plenty of latitude to remain on hold, and reinforces our expe...
MAURY HARRIS

We believe that the Fed will require both consistent solid hiring and a rise in inflation before it ...
MAURY HARRIS

The implication is that raw winter weather may have depressed starts last month, particularly late i...
MAURY HARRIS

I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who h...
MAURY WILLS

It's disappointing, but I broke the record just by taking the lineup out there,
MAURY WILLS

It's a little bit of a surprise, winter storms have been warmer than normal, and the snow line has b...
MAURY ROOS

The longer we can hold it there the better. It will stretch out the supply a little more.
MAURY ROOS

The forecasts are pretty good ? if we get normal weather henceforth.
MAURY ROOS

His leads would be: The Redskins came on the field in their colors, burgundy, gold and Caucasian. Or...
MAURY POVICH

The Gayle King Show.
MAURY POVICH

Very often we find that citizens are found by police officers on the side of the road or wandering t...
MAURY MITCHELL

Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was…...
MIA FONTAINE

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
LA FONTAINE

My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.
JUST FONTAINE

I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to t...
JOAN FONTAINE

Nothing is useless to the man of sense, he turns everything to account
CHARLES FONTAINE

The public is willing to pay tolls. What they're not willing to do is stop and pay at toll booths.
JEFF FONTAINE

Were David Sarnoff alive today, there would almost surely be no place for him in the company [RCA] h...
CHARLES FONTAINE

Just as XML is taking over integration categories, people will choose ODF.
ARTHUR FONTAINE

It's like a malady you always manage. You never cure it.
ARTHUR FONTAINE

It's like any other direct marketing activity. It's not how much you send out, it's how many hits yo...
ARTHUR FONTAINE

The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and...
JOAN FONTAINE

In the acquire-or-be-acquired corporate mayhem of the 1980s, the mantle of management has passed to ...
CHARLES FONTAINE

I think it is an isolated situation. It's just a piece that wore out. I don't think it's symptomatic...
JEFF FONTAINE

You never know how important something is, until it's gone.
JULIAN FONTAINE

Don't let people run your life. It's yours. You run it, the way you want it.
JULIAN FONTAINE

"When you are not looking, they find you, the people that you always missed when you were looking." ...
RACHAEL FONTAINE

Gray wolves are very hardy, very tough and can withstand a lot.
JOE FONTAINE

If I can go on stage in a bikini and heels and still show I am confident and I like how I look no ma...
MARLIA FONTAINE

People who have nothing to give, tend to give the most.
JULIAN FONTAINE

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.
JOAN FONTAINE

It's a disaster. I've lived all over Canada and it's the worst ice storm I've ever seen.
COLETTE FONTAINE

Be honest with yourself. Think about the necessary steps to get there.
MARLIA FONTAINE

Always think big and go for your goals.
MARLIA FONTAINE

- Child is abused, perpetrator threatens to hurt mother. Child feels protective of mother.
- S...
CLAIRE FONTAINE

Besides, teams are less attacking now.
JUST FONTAINE

Only two journalists followed the team around.
JUST FONTAINE

My mind was not on the record - I turned down the chance to take a penalty in the third-place game.
JUST FONTAINE

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.
JUST FONTAINE

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.
JUST FONTAINE

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.
JUST FONTAINE

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.
JUST FONTAINE

Fifth is great, especially as I was forced to retire when I was 26 - right at the moment when I was ...
JUST FONTAINE

To beat my record, a side would really have to go for it, or a player would need to go on a goal spr...
JUST FONTAINE

One of the concerns is that if we wait to build, the cost of construction will continue to escalate,...
JEFF FONTAINE

It's a condition of the need for revenue and the evolution of technology. Even at the national level...
JEFF FONTAINE

We're looking at where it has been used.
JEFF FONTAINE

If people were not asking these questions, we'd be in worse shape. It's all out in the open now. I t...
JOE FONTAINE

I was on the ground near Murphy Lake, northwest of Whitefish - it was around 1990 - when I came arou...
JOE FONTAINE

I didn't think I had a chance. I was about as naïve as you can possibly get. It was like I woke up ...
JOE FONTAINE

Through my whole career I've walked the fence and been beaten up by both sides.
JOE FONTAINE

There's a human face to it this time around. I think the climate has changed.
MICHELLE FONTAINE

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market ye...
PETER FONTAINE

This situation is entirely unacceptable,
PHIL FONTAINE

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system w...
HENRI LA FONTAINE

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by...
HENRI LA FONTAINE

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the...
HENRI LA FONTAINE

He had that kind of power and athletic ability, as a kid. He was a shortstop, but we had Gary DiSarc...
BOB FONTAINE JR

He realized the longer he waited, the better the look he had. He knew what pitchers trying to do. Wh...
BOB FONTAINE JR

They'd use wood rather than aluminum bats, so you'd get a better idea of what to expect. The first t...
BOB FONTAINE JR

We signed him to be an impact power hitter and he's been just that.
BOB FONTAINE JR

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo...
MATTHEW SWEET

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends....
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I ...
MATTHEW SETTLE

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative...
MATTHEW SCULLY

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completel...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
MATTHEW QUICK

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
MATTHEW SHIPP

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
MATTHEW QUICK

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me i...
MATTHEW QUICK

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
MATTHEW DESMOND

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS

I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,...
MATTHEW SETTLE

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
MATTHEW MCGRORY

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
MATTHEW DESMOND

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD

Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra...
MATTHEW SCULLY

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ...
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
MATTHEW STEWART

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
MATTHEW ASHFORD

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK

Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN

Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lay...
MATTHEW PRIOR

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno...
MATTHEW QUICK

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...
MATTHEW LEWIS

We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
MATTHEW BOULTON

There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac...
MATTHEW DICKS

Dare to Differ
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ...
MATTHEW SCULLY

Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making...
MATTHEW FOX

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
MATTHEW PRIOR

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR

They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
MATTHEW PRIOR

To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
MATTHEW PRIOR

One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how...
MATTHEW FOX

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
MATTHEW PRIOR

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
MATTHEW FOX

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD

That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
MATTHEW GREEN

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX

At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR

I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

To err is human.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The end must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

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Matthew Fontaine Maury

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

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