“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”George Carlin US comedian and actor (1937 &...
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”Josh Billings US Humorist (1818 – 1885)
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)”Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary US author & satirist (1842 – 1914)
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.”Hector Berlioz French composer (1803 – 1869)
“Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.”Evan Esar American Humorist (1899 – 1995)
“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”Sir Arthur Eddington English astronomer (1882 – 1944)
“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”John Kenneth Galbraith US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 – 2006)
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 US author, ...
“What’s another word for Thesaurus?”Steven Wright US comedian and actor (1955 – )
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”Groucho Marx US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 – 1977)
“Facts are the enemy of truth.”Miguel de Cervantes, Man of La Mancha Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 – 1616)
“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (187...
“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 – 1989)
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915 British mystery author & physician...
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”Arthur C. Clarke, “Technology and the Future” (Clarke’s second law) Englis...
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”Euripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)
“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”Tom Stoppard British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 – )
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.”Doug Larson
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”Daniel J. Boorstin US historian (1914 – )
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.”Nancy Astor British politician (1879 – 1964)
“The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.”Carl Becker
“No human thing is of serious importance.”Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.”Dwight D. Eisen...
“Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.”Robert Benchley US actor, author, & humorist (1889 – 1945)
“I think the world is run by ‘C’ students.”Al McGuire
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind...
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”Robertson Davies
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)
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