Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
—Scott Adams
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
—Anon
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
—Lily Tomlin
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
—Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
—Thomas Szasz
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
—Dame Edna Everage
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
—Edith Sitwell
