quotes

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

           -- Norman Douglas

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

           -- William James

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

           -- Jerry Seinfeld

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

           -- Akira Kurosawa

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

           -- Paul Valery, 1895

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

           -- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

           -- Pablo Picasso

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

           -- Nick Diamos

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

           -- Robert Orben

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

           -- Will Durant

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

           -- Sir William Osler

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

           -- Rita Rudner

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

           -- Louis Pasteur

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

           -- Kin Hubbard

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

           -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"