quotes

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
           -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
           -- Horace Walpole

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
           -- Fran Lebowitz

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
           -- Rita Rudner

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
           -- Muhammad Ali



Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
           -- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
           -- Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007