It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. H. L. Mencken
"Where there is love, there is pain."
"The souls of those who have quit the body violently are most pure Such end true lovers hath". Nephilim
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. James Thurber
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
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