quotes

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
           -- Oscar Levant

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
           -- Alan Patrick Herbert

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
           -- James Thurber

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
           -- Hannah Arendt

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
           -- Lily Tomli

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
           -- De La Lastra's Law

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
           -- Wilson Mizner

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
           -- Chuck Reid

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
           -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Actions lie louder than words.
           -- Carolyn Wells

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
           -- Mickey Rooney

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
           -- Albert Camus

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
           -- Bruce Grocott

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
           -- E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
           -- Michel de Montaigne

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
           -- John le Carre

A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.
           -- Rodney Dangerfield

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
           -- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
           -- Galileo Galilei

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
           -- Artemus Ward

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
           -- Jonathan Swift