quotes

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
           -- Ring Lardner

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
           -- Mo Udall

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
           -- Aldous Huxley, Vedanta for the Western World, 1945

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
           -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
           -- Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
           -- Unknown

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
           -- David Smith

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
           -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
           -- Hodding Carter

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
           -- John Kenneth Galbraith

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
           -- Sir Winston Churchill

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
           -- Henry Morgan

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
           -- Ronnie Shakes

These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.
           -- Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
           -- R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978