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

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson, in Vice and Virtue

Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Jess Lair, in Happiness and Misery

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

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Too much of a good thing is just that.

Brian J. Dent, in Vice and Virtue

The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon, in Success and Failure

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad, in Art and Literature

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.

Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics

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

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse, in Life and Death

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

R. D. Laing, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Women make love for love, men make love for lust.

Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.

Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance