Quotes

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. - Lillian Hellman

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius. - George Bernard Shaw

Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the lord makes so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient. - James Russel Lowell

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent. - Socrates

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole! - Dr. Murray Banks

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so. - John Stewart Mill

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. - C. C. Colton

Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. - John Tudor

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. - Anonymous

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money. - James Montgomery Bailey

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes. - Napoleon

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. - Hazlitt

The friend of all humanity is not to my taste. - Moliere

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde

Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember. - Oscar Levant

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public. - H. L. Mencken

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits. - Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta

The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are everlasting. - Sallust

Always do right. This will gratify some persons and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. - Laurence J. Peter

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. - Groucho Marx

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde

It is not enough to succeed; others must fail. - Gore Vidal

I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. - Carl Sandburg

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. - H. L. Mencken

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. - George Orwell

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. Dale Carnegie

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. J. Frank Dobie (1888 - 1964), "A Texan in England", 1945

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"

Never judge a book by its movie. J. W. Eagan

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed. De La Lastra's Law