More Humorist Wisdom

Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind. - Mark Twain

humorist wisdom

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. – Don Marquis

Science Fiction Wisdom

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. – John Sladek

Transcendentalist Wisdom

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. – Henry David Thoreau

Hungarian Socialite Wisdom

I know nothing about sex because I was always married. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

French General Wisdom

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. – Charles de Gaulle

Management Consultant Wisdom

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker

Author Wisdom

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. – Douglas Adams

Pulitzer Prize Columnist Wisdom

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. – Ellen Goodman

Screenwriter Wisdom

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. – William Goldman

Philisophical Wisdom

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. – Henri-Frederic Amiel

Emmy Award Winning Wisdom...

I always wanted a happy ending….Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. – Gilda Radner

Philosopher Wisdom

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief; he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell

Romantic Poet Wisdom

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. – James Russell Lowell

Sci Fi Writer Wisdom

Actions have consequences…first rule of life. And the second rule is this…you are the only one responsible for your own actions. – Holly Lisle

Pulizter Prize-Winning Wisdom

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which if it does not bring joy, can bring happiness. – Pearl Buck

Humorist Wisdom

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. – Evan Esar

Cartoonist Wisdom

The best way to get approval is not to need it. – Hugh Macleod