A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
  - Sophocles
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
  - Virginia Woolf
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
  - Neil Armstrong
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
  - Italian Proverb
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
  - Italian Proverb
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
  - Alfred Hitchcock
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
  - Hesketh Pearson
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
  - Burt Bacharach
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
  - Bertrand Russell
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
  - Woody Allen
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
  - Kurt Vonnegut
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
  - Thomas Szasz
Only the shallow know themselves.
  - Oscar Wilde
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
  - Ogden Nash
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
  - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
  - Ellen Goodman
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
  - Orson Welles
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
  - HL Mencken
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
  - Stanislaw J. Lec
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
  - Albert Einstein
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  - W. Somerset Maugham
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be 
understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But 
in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
  - Paul Dirac
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
  - Kilgore Trout
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to 
chance.
  - Robert R. Coveyou
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, 
but not well enough to lend to.
  - Ambrose Bierce
Early morning 
cheerfulness can be 
extremely obnoxious.
  - William Feather
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
  - Steven Wright
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing 
himself.
  - Leo Tolstoy
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, 
I don't know.
  - WH Auden
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple 
reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
  - James Thurber
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
  - Voltaire
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
  - Putt's Law
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
  - GK Chesterton
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
  - Alice James
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
  - Niels Bohr
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
  - Carlos A. Urbizo
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
  - Don Marquis
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
  - Susan Ertz
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
  - Arthur C. Clarke
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
  - TS Eliot
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
  - Peter Ustinov
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
  - WC Fields
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
  - Elbert Hubbard 
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
  - Lane Olinghouse
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
  - Jackie Mason
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
  - William S. Burroughs
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
  - Norm Papernick
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
  - Thomas Carlyle
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
  - Akira Kurosawa
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
  - Peter McWilliams
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
  - Poul Anderson
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
  - Immanuel Kant
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
  - Sacha Guitry