July 8th, 2007

Harry Golden

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."



W. H. Auden

"Amongthose whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, butamong those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."



H. L. Mencken

"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf."


Gustave Flaubert

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."

Walt Disney

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.


John W. Gardner

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.



Henry Kissinger

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.



George F. Will

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Anonymous

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.




Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.




Richard Lewis

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.




David Richerby

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

Stephen Leacock
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.


Will Durant

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.


Norman Brenner
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.



William Hazlitt
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.