It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
—P. G. Wodehouse
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
—P. G. Wodehouse
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
—Robert A. Heinlein
You should not throw a pie that’s in a pan.
—Soupy Sales
Nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. No one is so old that he does not think it possible to live another year.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Age” is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
—Martha Graham
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
—Malcolm Muggeridge
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art … It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
—C. S. Lewis
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
—John Petit-Senn
Wit is educated insolence.
—Aristotle
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Your pie hole is for pie, not politics.
—David Burge
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
—Mel Brooks
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
—Indira Gandhi
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
—Voltaire
Don’t be humble … you’re not that great.
—Golda Meir
Why is it there are so many more horses’ asses than there are horses?
—G. Gordon Liddy
Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
—P. J. O’Rourke
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
—Ayn Rand
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
—Niccolo Machiavelli
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
—Augustine of Hippo
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
—Oscar Wilde
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
—Oscar Wilde
Class is real. It can’t be faked.
—Ann Landers