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- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
- John H. Patterson
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
- Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
- Lane Olinghouse
- The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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