quotes

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
           -- Samuel Butler
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
           -- Arthur Honegger
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
           -- Herbert Hoover

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
           -- Leo Rosten
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
           -- Bill Cosby

Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.
           -- Peter Blake, House M.D., Safe, 2006
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
           -- Maureen Murphy

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
           -- Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
           -- George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
           -- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
           -- Harry Golden
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
           -- Abraham Lincoln

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
           -- James Thurber
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
           -- Vince Lombardi

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
           -- Cullen Hightower

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
           -- George Burns