Quotes to live by

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity
Robertson Davies

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of
Burt Bacharach

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind
H. L. Mencken

Seek simplicity, and distrust it
Alfred North Whitehead

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. White

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a freeman Alan Paton

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson

First mend yourself, and then mend others
Jewish Proverb

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart -Becky Rodenbeck

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her
-Marcelene Cox

Life is too short for traffic
Dan Bellack

I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.
Ellen DeGeneres

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult a Charlotte Whitton

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw J. Lec

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'
Phillip Lopate

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these

Paul Harvy

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
Robert Benchley