"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." Judith Martin
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Sir Winston Churchill
"Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage." Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." Kurt Vonnegut
"You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave." Sydney Smith
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."George Bernard Shaw
"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday."Sir William Bragg
"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."Robertson Davies
"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted." James Branch Cabell
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." Albert Einstein
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."Ellen Goodman
"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean." Mark Twain
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." Thomas H. Huxley
"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."Al Capone
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." Harry S Truman
"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."John J. Plomp
"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."William Ralph Inge