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- The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
- One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
- When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
- Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies
- The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
- Robertson Davies
- Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
- Robertson Davies
- In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
- A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
- The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
- Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
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