All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

—Alexandre Dumas

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope'.

—Alexandre Dumas

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

—Alexandre Dumas

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

—Duke Ellington

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

—Woody Allen

I have every sympathy with the American [smoker] who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

—Henry G. Strauss

You are out of danger," he said. I laughed and said, "How can I be? I don't feel dead yet.

—Margaret Laurence

Advice to children crossing the street: Damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

—Jackie "Moms" Mabley