Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.... Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Aragorn British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973) What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. Henny Youngman US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998) He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3 The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI) Nothing recedes like success. Walter Winchell, American Columnist and Broadcaster (1897-1972) US gossip columnist & broadcast journalist (1897 - 1972) Any fool can make a rule,<br>and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. Philip R. Zimmermann Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net US novelist (1922 - ) |