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- Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Artist Descending a Staircase"
- There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr
- The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- I hate music, especially when it's played.
- Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980)
- Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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