Archives - July 2002

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Wrinkles only go where the smiles have been.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Tomorrow is going to come whether or not I'm ready. So I

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Don't be so modest, you

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were on only one side.

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.