History is bunk. Henry Ford
US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Herodotus
Greek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880) He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. Margaret Mead
US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978) Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956) When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. H. Allen Smith A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger
US novelist & short story author (1919 - ) | 
