Quote (#497)

"Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth."
- Theodor Adorno

"Advertising is the greatest
art form of the 20th century."
- Marshall McLuhan

"Where words fail, music speaks."
- H.C. Andersen

"Art enables us to find ourselves and
lose ourselves at the same time."
- Thomas Merton

"Anger is the feeling that makes your
mouth work faster than your mind."
- Evan Esar

"The trouble with America is that
there are far too many wide-open
spaces surrounded by teeth."
- Charles Luckman

Quotes

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically
according to your height."
- Casey Stengel

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-
minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
- Evan Esar

The one thing more difficult than following
a regimen is not imposing it on others.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

A little rebellion now
and then is a good thing.
- Thomas Jefferson

"Everything comes to him
who hustles while he waits."
- Thomas Edison

"Procrastination isn't the problem,
it's the solution. So procrastinate
now, don't put it off."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Quotes

"I cook with wine, sometimes
I even add it to the food."
- W. C. Fields

"I'm willing to admit that I may not
always be right, but I am never wrong."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of
the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
- Joseph Baretti

"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy
that has ever existed has behaved, in all
essential points, exactly like a small mob."
- G. K. Chesterton

"I've been trying for some time to develop a
lifestyle that doesn't require my presence."
- Garry Trudeau

"Statistics: The only science that enables
different experts using the same figures
to draw different conclusions."
- Evan Esar

Quotaria

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think,
every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every
day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley

It seems like once people grow up,
they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson

"Play: Work that you enjoy
doing for nothing."
- Evan Esar

"If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you; But if you really make
them think, they'll hate you."
- Don Marquis

"We learn something every day,
and lots of times it's that what
we learned the day before was wrong."
- Bill Vaughan

"Politics is the skilled
use of blunt objects."
- Lester B. Pearson

Quotaria

"Is sloppiness in speech caused
by ignorance or apathy? I don't
know and I don't care."
- William Safire

"A signature always reveals a man's
character - and sometimes even his name."
- Evan Esar

"I have noticed that the people who are
late are often so much jollier than the
people who have to wait for them."
- E. V. Lucas

Politicians are like diapers; they should be
changed frequently and for the same reason.
- Anonymous

The real leader has no need
to lead - he is content
to point the way.
- Henry Miller

Originality is the fine art of remembering what
you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter

Quotes

"If you want to know what God
thinks of money, just look at
the people he gave it to."
- Dorothy Parker

"I do not know which makes a man more
conservative - to know nothing but the
present, or nothing but the past."
- John Maynard Keynes

"Few people can see genius in
someone who has offended them."
- Robertson Davies

"It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own
version of these Swedish meatballs. I suspect it's one of
those great universal mysteries, which will either never be
explained or which would drive you mad if you ever learned
the truth."
- G'Kar, Babylon 5

"it is healthier to see the good points of
others than to analyze our own bad ones."
~ Francoise Sagan

"All work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy and Jill a rich widow."
- Evan Esar

Quotaria

"Reality leaves a lot
to the imagination."
- John Lennon

"That government is best
which governs least."
- Thomas Paine

"I looked up my family tree
and found out I was the sap."
- Rodney Dangerfield

"We won't have a society if
we destroy the environment."
- Margaret Mead

"Character is what you have left when
you've lost everything you can lose."
- Evan Esar

"The key to being a good manager is
keeping the people who hate me away
from those who are still undecided."
- Casey Stengel

Quotaria

"It's a small world, but I
wouldn't want to paint it."
- Steven Wright

"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious"
becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study
the universe. For example, there are no solids in
the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a
solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are
no surfaces. There are no straight lines."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Conscience is what makes a boy tell
his mother before his sister does."
- Evan Esar

"When I was a kid my parents moved
a lot, but I always found them."
- Rodney Dangerfield

"If we love our country, we should
also love our countrymen."
- Ronald Reagan

"Whatever is worth doing at
all is worth doing well."
- Lord Chesterfield

Quotes

"A recent police study found that you're much
more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run."
- Dennis Miller

"Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits
that under analysis some of them won't stand up either."
- Evan Esar

"Today's public figures can no longer write their
own speeches or books, and there is some evidence
that they can't read them either."
- Gore Vidal

"I hate life, I hate death and everything
in between just doesn't interest me."
- Chris Rapier

"Power corrupts. Absolute
power is kind of neat."
- John Lehman

"I went to a fight the other night,
and a hockey game broke out."
- Rodney Dangerfield