There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Mary Little

The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.

English Proverb

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

George Bernard Shaw

Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design.... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.

Douglas Engelbart, 1970

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

Andy Milonakis

Did I do a whole life's laughing in that little time?

Stephen R. Donaldson

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Germaine Greer

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Tony Blair

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Henry David Thoreau

That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.

C.S. Lewis