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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in War and Peace

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

Doug Kenney, in Love and Hate

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin, in Vice and Virtue

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline, in Life and Death

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Hermione Gingold, in Food and Drink

In war, there is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur, in War and Peace

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

Robert Burton, in Wisdom and Ignorance

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

I don't feel good.

Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben, in Law and Politics

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