finite quotes

I believe every human has a finite number of heart- beats.I don't intend towasteanyof minerunning around doing exercises.

- Neil A(lden) Armstrong
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

-Thomas Carlyle
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.