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
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
—Earl Wilson
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
—Harry S. Truman
I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It’s not the best way to live. But it’s the way I am.
—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex