Submissions

The man who laughs has not yet heard the news.

Bertolt Brecht

"Paranoia is just knowing all the facts."

William S. Burroughs, Jr.

"It's only when the tide goes out that
you learn who's been swimming naked."

Warren Buffett, aka the Oracle of Omaha

Cain was the first leftist; seeing his brother enjoy fulfilment that he did not was more than he could bear....

RHJunior

"Men, it has been well said, think in
herds; it will be seen that they go mad
in herds, while they only recover their
senses slowly, and one by one."

Charles Mackay, from Extraordinary Popular Delusions

My life is a novel. Her life is a collection of short stories.

Cris Vikeng

Dating is like sport fishing.

Jillian Nelson, My own

Lonliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Arturo Perez-Reverte, Translated by Margret Jull Costa

The Devil speaks truth much oftner than he's deem'd,
He hath an ignorant audience.

Lord Byron

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

Anon

I pointed out to you the stars and the moon, but all you saw was the tip of my finger.

C.S.Saunders

"LOVE" - The juvenile manifestation of the adult emotion, lust.

Roger, I am not a cynic.

"We can't ensure success, but we can deserve it."

George Washington

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Mark Twain

"History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, next as a comedy."

George Santayana

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby, 1977

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

--Eubie Blake, 1979

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

--James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son,

He who knows everything will know all he will ever know.

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