Quotes (#483)

"I became a feminist
as an alternative to
becoming a masochist."
- Sally Kempton

"The great enemy of clear language
is insincerity. When there is a gap
between one's real and one's declared
aims, one turns as it were instinctively
to long words and exhausted idioms, like
a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
- George Orwell

"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed
as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute
an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black
cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what
she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."
- Solomon Short

"A large income is the best recipe
for happiness I ever heard of."
- Jane Austen

"The incompetent with nothing to
do can still make a mess of it."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Faith is, at one and the same
time, absolutely necessary and
altogether impossible."
- Stanislaw Lem