If Ignorance Is bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?
John Lloyd & John Mitchinson

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
--Steuart Henderson Britt

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
--Lewis Thomas

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
--Henry Mitchell

Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
--Billy Connolly

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
--Jean Sibelius

I don not try to dance better than anyone else. I try to dance better than myself.
--Mikhail Baryshnikov

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
--E.M. Forster

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
--Dag Hammarskjold

My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
--Walter Matthau

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
--Herbert Hoover

Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
--William Saroyan

I have done everything possible to please you. I am the most famous artist in the world. I have worked day and night and undergone hardships of every description, but I still do not know what you want of me...
--Michelangelo Buonarotti

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why God? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered: "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
--Stephen King

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
--Bill Vaughan

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
--Jane Sellman

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
--Stephen Covey

How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And if I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.
--Soren Kierkegaard

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
--Alfred E. Neuman

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes of playing a poor hand well.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
--Oswald Spengler

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
--Rebecca West

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
--Sam Levenson

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
--Spike Milligan

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush," "Dick," and "Colon." Need I say more?
--Chris Rock

William Styron:
Book - Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1989)

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.
--Henry Kissinger

I keep six honest serving men/They taught me all I knew/Their names are What and Why and When/And Hos and Where and Who.
--Rudyard Kipling

Muriel Rukeyser
Book: The Book of the Dead

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
--Groucho Marx

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
--Pablo Picasso

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
--James Baldwin

Ernest Becker
book: The Denial Of Death

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants more than anything else to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand who important other things are--and have always been.
--Benjamin Jowett

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing, and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
--Soren Kierkegaard

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