Quotes (#475)

I praise loudly;
I blame softly.
- Catherine II

What a day may bring,
a day may take away.
- Thomas Fuller

"A cynic is a man who,
when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin."
- H. L. Mencken

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Treat all disasters as if they
were trivialities but never treat
a triviality as if it were a disaster."
- Quentin Crisp

Little minds are tamed and
subdued by misfortune; but
great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving

Quotes

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is
when you fall into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks

"Always be nice to those younger than you, because
they are the ones who will be writing about you."
- Cyril Connolly

"If I have seen further it is by
standing on the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton

"Many would be cowards if
they had courage enough."
- Thomas Fuller

"There is no such thing as an underestimate
of average intelligence."
- Henry Adams

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize.
The right sort of people do not want apologies,
and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
- P.G. Wodehouse