Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Apr. 29, 1930
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. - Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. - Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar. - David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. - Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons