Philip Johnson

US architect (1906 - 2005)

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

Dame Rose Macaulay

English novelist (1881 - 1958)

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Dame Rose Macaulay

Alan Woods

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

Alan Woods

Samuel Johnson

English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

Herb Caen

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Unknown

Quotations by unknown authors

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Unknown

Henry Kissinger

US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

Sir Thomas Beecham

English conductor (1879 - 1961)

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

From "Taxi"

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

From "Taxi"

Joe Theismann, Former quarterback

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann, Former quarterback

Erma Bombeck

US author & humorist (1927 - 1996)

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Erma Bombeck

Raymond Chandler

US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959)

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

Aristotle

Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

Jeff Marder

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marder

Stephen Leacock

Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944)

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Katharine Whitehorn

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

Lester J. Pourciau

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer



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