The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

About Ashleigh Brilliant

Portrait of Ashleigh Brilliant

Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant (December 9, 1933 – September 24, 2025) was a British and American epigrammatist and cartoonist. He was best known for his "Pot-Shots", single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States in 1975.

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It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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It's been a lifelong problem of mine that those I've been closest to are the ones I've had the least influence on. My parents, my sister, my wife, even my cat—or maybe I should say especially my cat—have never really taken me seriously. That may help to explain why I finished up making a career of peddling my thoughts to the world in general. At least the world in general doesn't automatically dismiss anything coming from me, that is, so long as I say it in a neat epigram of 17 words or less.

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There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

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One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

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Once I wanted total happiness—now I will settle for a little less pain.

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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

—Blaise Pascal

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

—Charles Darwin

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

—G. K. Chesterton

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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail. All exquisite niceties of weights and measures as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

—Ursula K. Le Guin in The Dispossessed

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I believe in fate, and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life.

—Ella Frank in Exquisite

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