As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. George Carlin US comedian and actor (1937 - ) Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. George Carlin US comedian and actor (1937 - ) Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. Dr. Seuss US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991) Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915 British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. David T. Wolf (1943 - ) With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) |