The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Noelie Altito
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Brendan F. Behan
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they
are not.
Elias Root Beadle
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
Carl Becker
Ambrose Bierce |
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I
think that I am.)
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will
ever regret.
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. |
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations
officers.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that
of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
Calvin
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Joseph Conrad
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.'
The doctor says, 'It's old age.'
The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.'
The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Tommy Cooper
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Quentin Crisp
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow
out of it.
Doris Day
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
Philip K. Dick
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to
walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller
Nice people have to be bastards every once in a while so that others can
fully appreciate their gentle, loving nature.
Dionisio
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
Doris Egan
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common
phenomenon.
Albert Einstein
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out
on the joke of the century.
Dame Edna Everage
I
am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.
Now he's miserable and depressed.
David Frost
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
It is astounding to realize that perhaps half of all human knowledge has
been discovered or created in the past century. But then again, so has half
the bullshit.
D. H. Futterman, circa 1988
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we
were often angry at each other.
Charles De Gaulle
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Bruce Grocott
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition
was the belief in facts.
John Gunther
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S. Harper
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging
their prejudices.
William James
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be
tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.
Lord Kelvin
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Tom Lehrer
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson
You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right
and the budget is big enough.
Joseph E. Levine
I drink to forget I drink.
Joe E. Lewis
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that
come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to
be bought and sold are legislators.
PJ O'Rourke
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments
of its opposers.
Admiral William Penn
I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.
Chris Rapier
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid,
but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth
more than my head.
Rita Rudner
Bertrand Russell |
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his
facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
Lily Tomlin
If you insist on measuring yourself, place the tape around your heart rather
than your head.
Carol Trabelle
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
Harry S. Truman
Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once
- all is discovered.'
They all left town immediately.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a
liar.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes
you nothing; it was here first.
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If ignorance is bliss, why are not much more people happy?
Talk is cheap because the supply outweighs the demand.
Laugh at your problems.
Everyone else does.
Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.
Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks
out and parades up and down the words.
A man who desires revenge should dig two graves.
When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same
thing.
"If there are any idiots in the room, will they please stand up"
said the sarcastic teacher.
After a long silence, one freshman rose to his feet.
"Now then mister, why do you consider yourself an idiot?"
enquired the teacher with a sneer.
"Well, actually I don't," said the student, "but I
hate to see you standing up there all by yourself.
A recent survey has opened a disturbing window into American culture:
We have a large number of cannibals in this country. When asked what
they were having for Thanksgiving dinner this year, 37% of those polled
said "relatives."
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
How many racists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None - they don't want to be enlightened!
How many Buddhists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None - they get enlightened themselves.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Paul Valery
Bill Vaughan |
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally
swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same
set of facts. |
The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.
Tom Wait
Remember, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose; what matters is whether
I win or lose.
Darrin Weinberg
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George F. Will
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf
