William Connor Magee Famous Quotes
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
William Connor Magee Quotations
"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
Thomas Fuller
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.
Julie Burchill
"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself."
William Shakespeare
"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn."
Henry Adams
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers."
Leo C Rosten
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell
"A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune."
Henry Ward Beecher
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles Austin Beard