"Who is more busy than he
who hath least to do?"
- John Clarke
"I'm just a person trapped
inside a woman's body."
- Elayne Boosler
"A facility for quotation covers
the absence of original thought."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is
no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere
pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."
- Phillip Lopate
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible."
- A Yale University management professor,
in response to student Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express)
"Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult
human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250"
- Harper's Index
Mark Twain
12 years ago
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