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
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
—Francis de Sales
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
—Winston Churchill
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
—Esther Dyson
The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
—Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
—Henry Stimson
Percentage wise, it is 100% easier not to do things than to do them, and so much fun not to do them—especially when you were supposed to do them. In terms of instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.
—John Mulaney
The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.
—Philip Roth in The Dying Animal
Exchange ideas frequently.
—James Cash Penney
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
—Lewis Mumford
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
—Samual Johnson