Gordon Haff's The Last Word

By Compiled by Nisanth Reddy | Saturday, December 8, 2007

Impunity, n. – wealth
—Ambrose Bierce,

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
—Albert Einstein

Buy land. They’ve stopped making it.
—Mark Twain

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
—Robert Frost

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
—Robert Frost

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
—General George S. Patton

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
—Abraham Lincoln

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
—William Faulkner

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.
—Ben Franklin

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.
—Bertrand Russell

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.
—Woody Allen

Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
—Winston Churchill

I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
—George Jean Nathan

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
—Mahatma Gandhi

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
—Elmer G. Letterman

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
—Goethe

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
—Lynn Hall

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
—James Gordon

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.
—Fred Allen

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
—John Milton

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
—Ausonius

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
—Peter De Vries

Gordon Haff's The Last Word

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