I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. James Thurber
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley Jr. (1861 - 1932)
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Lane Olinghouse
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George Burns (1896 - 1996)
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell; Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Milton
"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." John G. Riefenbaker
Only the good die young. That is why immortality is reserved for the greatest of evils.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die. Giacomo Leopardi
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. Abraham Lincoln
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