John Simon Famous Quotes
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon Quotations
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you."
John Updike
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
Lord Chesterfield
"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."
Barbara Garrison
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
Thomas Szasz
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo C Rosten
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G K Chesterton
"Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps."
Joe Murray