wisdom Quotes

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.