The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
—George Carlin
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
—Oscar Wilde
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
—Agatha Christie in The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
—Helen Rowland
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
—Bernard Baruch
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
There are more of them than us.
—Herb Caen
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
—William Gaddis
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
—Stephen Leacock
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
—P.J. O'Rourke
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
—e. e. cummings
I think I wanted it too much and you didn’t want it enough.
—Jay Crownover in Rule