Miscellaneous Quotes

• The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

• Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

• It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

• Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

• So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

• Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

• The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.

• The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

• This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances.

• All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

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