Brooks Atkinson Famous Quotes
Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty."
"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson Quotations
"Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup."
Sara Teasdale
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Italian Proverb
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
Joe Paterno
"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth."
Victor Borge
"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit."
Igor Stravinsky
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H L Mencken
Better is the enemy of good.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The journey is the reward.
Taoist Saying
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
"I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts