Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
-- Philip Guedalla
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
-- Elizabeth Taylor
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
-- Marquis de la Grange
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
-- William Shakespeare
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
-- Charles Kuralt
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
-- Laurence J. Peter
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage
I didn't really say everything I said.
-- Yogi Berra
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
-- Thomas A. Edison
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
-- John Ciardi
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-- Robert Frost
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
-- Peter Ustinov
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
-- Paul Valery
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
-- Christopher Morley
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.
-- Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 02-01-09
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
-- William G. McAdoo
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
-- Albert Camus
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
-- Noel Coward
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn
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