Quote (#555)

The only fool bigger than the person who knows
it all is the person who argues with him.
- Anonymous

"Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter Drucker

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition
that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is
unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
- G. K. Chesterton

The truly educated man is that rare individual
who can separate reality from illusion.
- Anonymous

"I hate women because they
always know where things are."
- James Thurber

"An opinion should be the result of
thought, not a substitute for it."
- Jef Mallett

Quotes (#478)

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching
the egg, not smashing it.
- Arnold H. Glasow

Hot heads and cold hearts
never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

"Women are wiser than men
because they know less
and understand more."
- James Thurber

"A lot of fellows nowadays have
a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately,
they don't have a J.O.B."
- Fats Domino

To love what you do and
feel that it matters--how
could anything be more fun?
- Katherine Graham

What you will do matters.
All you need is to do it.
- Judy Grahn

Quotaria - James Thurber

There is no safety in numbers,
or in anything else.
- James Thurber

"All human beings should try to learn
before they die what they are running
from, and to, and why."
- James Thurber

"Well, if I called the wrong number,
why did you answer the phone?"
- James Thurber

Her own mother lived the latter years of her
life in the horrible suspicion that electricity
was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want
one, for the simple reason that if he listened
to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
- James Thurber

"You can fool too many of the
people too much of the time."
- James Thurber

Quotaria - Favorites

The human brain starts working the
moment you are born and never stops
until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel

"I'd rather know some of the questions
than all of the answers."
- James Thurber

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil
of the eye. The more light you shine
on it, the more it will contract."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to believe."
- Laurence J. Peter

"When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!"
- Laurie Anderson

When dealing with the insane, the best
method is to pretend to be sane.
- Hermann Hesse

Quotaria

Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity. They seem more
afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes

There will always be a part, and always a very large
part of every community, that have no care but for
themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches
little further than impatience of immediate pain,
and eagerness for the nearest good.
- Samuel Johnson

All progress is based upon a universal innate
desire on the part of every organism to live
beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler

"To talk to a child, to fascinate him, is much more difficult
than to win an electoral victory. But it is also more rewarding."
- Colette, French author (1873-1954)

There are two kinds of light--the glow that
illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber

"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts,
except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."
- Blake Clark

Quotaria

To me style is just the outside of content,
and content the inside of style, like the
outside and the inside of the human body.
Both go together, they can't be separated.
- Jean-Luc Godard

"It is better to know some of the
questions than all of the answers."
- James Thurber

"I wish the government would put a
tax on pianos for the incompetent."
Edith Sitwell

"You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think."
Milton Berle

"Voters don't decide issues, they
decide who will decide issues."
George Will

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the
number of entities required to explain anything
- William of Ockham (1285-1349)

Quotes

One day I sat thinking almost in despair; a hand
fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly:
"Cheer up, things could get worse." So I cheered up,
and sure enough, things got worse.
- James Hagerty

"There are three kinds of lies:
lies, damn lies, and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli

Do not trust the cheering, for those
very persons would shout as much if
you and I were going to be hanged.
- Oliver Cromwell

A lot of people like snow. I find it to
be an unnecessary freezing of water.
- Carl Reiner

Traffic signals in New York
are just rough guidelines.
- David Letterman

The only rules comedy can tolerate
are those of taste, and the only
limitations those of libel.
- James Thurber