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- Sir, I admit your general rule, that every poet is a fool, but you yourself may serve to show it, that every fool is not a poet.
---Alexander Pope
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of preadamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
---W. S. Gilbert, English librettist (spoken by Pooh-Bah a character in The Mikado)
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
---Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist quoted in The London Observer
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
---Omar Nelson Bradley, U.S. general in his 1959 Armed Forces Day address
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
---Minna Antrim, American author in Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
---Fran Lebowitz, journalist. Social Studies,"Tips for Teens" (1981).
It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.
---Bob Dylan singer/songwriter in Tarantula
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're feal for you whether they're real or not.
---James Baldwin, author
No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
---Maya Angelou, author & poet
I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
---MILAN KUNDERA, Czech author & critic in Immortality
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
---Philip Roth, novelist in The Counterlife
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
---Hans Magnus Enzensberger
German poet & critic on BBC's "The Late Show"
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this -- that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
---John Jay Chapman, author of Practical Agitation
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
---F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
---Alexander Cockburn,
Anglo-Irish journalist
"Pull the Plug,"
in Mother Jones
(on his preference for typewriters over word processors)
Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is not as efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.
---Jeremy Campbell, British journalist Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life (1982)
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
---Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11.
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