Quotes

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
           -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943



I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
           -- Michel de Montaigne

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
           -- Eugene McCarthy
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
           -- Benjamin Franklin

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
           -- Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
           -- Nancy Astor

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
           -- Randall Jarrell

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
           -- T. S. Eliot


We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
           -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
           -- Bernard M. Baruch


Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
           -- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
           -- John F. Kennedy

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
           -- John Dryden, The Medal, 1682Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
           -- Laurence J. Peter

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
           -- Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
           -- Doug Larson

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
           -- Malcolm Forbes

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
           -- William Feather

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
          -- Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
           -- A. H. Weiler
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
           -- Honore de Balzac
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
           -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
           -- Alfred E. Wiggam
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
           -- P. B. Medawar

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
           -- Albert Camus