Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
—Mary Ellen Kelly
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
—George Orwell
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
—Cary Grant
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
—Golda Meir
Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
—Jules Renard
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
—Virgil
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
—Mark Twain
There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
—Jerry Seinfeld
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
—William Arthur Ward
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
—Will Rogers
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
—Paul Valéry
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
—Malcolm de Chazal
We should remember that it is easy and foolish to sneer at the mistakes or barbarities of remote ages.
—Hermann Hesse