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The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France, in Vice and Virtue

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.

Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard, in Success and Failure

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.

M. Bernheisel, in Wisdom and Ignorance

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman, in Altruism and Cynicism

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht, in Success and Failure

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Cousteau, in Life and Death

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

Krystal Ann Kraus, in Men and Women

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler, in Altruism and Cynicism

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

David Knight, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics