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- Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
- My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.
- Richard Gere, to The Guardian (UK), June 2002
- A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
- Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
- I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach
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