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The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue

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

David Knight, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Robert Burton, in Wisdom and Ignorance

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes, in Science and Religion

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken, in Success and Failure

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, in Success and Failure

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln, in Vice and Virtue

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.

Doug Kenney, in Love and Hate

Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Altruism and Cynicism

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

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

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra, in Wisdom and Ignorance