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- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
- John H. Patterson
- I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
- Lane Olinghouse
- I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
- 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)
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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