It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
—Spock
It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
—Spock
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
—William Faulkner
I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
[Editor’s Note: This feature is supposed to be a bit of humor, but one of Pinky’s remarks from a few days ago might be an insightful warning worth repeating.]
I think so, Brain … but what might happen when 2020 turns 21 and starts drinking?
Today is the second Friday the Thirteenth of 2020.
J’ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici: Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules! I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: “O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!”
—Voltaire
Dibaot bugel a heuilh tud sot
Eus o sotoni na zesk lod.
A child who follows stupid people seldom stays without learning some of their stupidity.
—Breton Proverb
Prima societas in ipso conjugio est: proxima in liberis; deinde una domus, communia omnia. The first bond of society is marriage; the next, our children; then the whole family and all things in common.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’
—Dave Barry
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression “As pretty as an airport.”
—Douglas Adams
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. It may be that in the future you will be helped by remembering the past.
—Virgil
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self.
—Philip James Bailey
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
—Francis Bacon
My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.
—Mervyn Bunter
As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
—Mark Twain
The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh…
—David St. Hubbins
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
—J. M. Barrie
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done.
—Dorothy L. Sayers
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
—Sherlock Holmes