Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2005/05/13/the_last_word.php
Friday, May 13, 2005
Now, if only he pitch his standard low enough and keep free from pride, almost anyone can acheive a sort of excess.
—H. G. Wells
I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
—Bobby Fischer
Life is like nothing, because it is everything.
—William Golding
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
—Ambrose Bierce
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
—Irwin Edman
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
—G. K. Chesterton
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
—Thornton Wilder
Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
No one hears his own remarks as prose.
—W. H. Auden
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so.
—Ronald Reagan
Test me, I'm negative!
—Sign at a Homosexual Protest
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
— Franz Kafka
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency— the belief that the here and now is all there is.
—Allan Bloom
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
—George Orwell
Any man who thinks a woman is his intellectual equal is probably right.
—Joe Rendini
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
—Hannah More
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
—Edward Albee
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
—Vince Lombardi
Where am I going? And why am I in this hand-basket?
—Seen on a Bumper Sticker
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
—Arnold H. Glasow
In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
—Andy Warhol
Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.
—W.C. Fields
Rule 1, one page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow"...[Rule 2] is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China."
—Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery
A fast word about oral contraception: I asked a girl to go to bed with me, and she said "no."
—Woody Allen
Life is just one damned thing after another.
—Frank Ward O'Malley
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
—Albert Camus
Wives of corporate executives who babble indiscreetly at lunch are a rich source of financial information. Listen closely and buy them another drink.
—David Brown