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- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
- Berton Averre
- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
- Rita Rudner
- Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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