A change of pace blog post for Tuesday.
“Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.” – Nicolas Chamfort
“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” – Albert Camus
“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.” – Norman Douglas
“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.” – George Santayana
“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.” – Honore de Balzac
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde
“Barack Obama is the piece of dog crap stubbornly clinging to the bottom of history’s shoes.” – Edward Wozniak
“A woman drove me to drink, and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.” – W.C. Fields
“When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.” – Peter de Vries
“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.” – James Thurber
“Only one more indispensable massacre of capitalists or communists or fascists or Christians or heretics and there we are in the Golden Future.” – Aldous Huxley
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” – Aleister Crowley
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” – George Orwell
“Self-proclaimed historians are liars with a political axe to grind and their version of events must always be questioned.” – Janet Smith
“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.” – Karl Kraus
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.” – Anatole France
“Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.” – Dick Gregory
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” – H.G. Wells
“I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.” – Fran Lebowitz
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Thanks for sharing these great quotes!
Glad to do it! Thank you for the nice comment!
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The one about being a misanthrope at forty definitely applies to me! Love these quotes!
I feel the same way about that one!
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Logged, thank you sir!
You forget my favorite quote of recent:
Ha! There you go! And there’s “Don’t have a cow, man” and “Eat my shorts.”
Balladeer,
Truthfully, though, the quote that woke me was with the one from de Balzac. Still, they got real at the one from Wilde. I should have been satisfied with the one from Wozniak. However, like Fields, I never had the courtesy.
So, thanks.
Thank YOU for the fun comments! So many of these sayings stay with a person.
Not to imply that you drove me to drink, but to just to say that I thank you for the quotes.
Ha! I figured that’s what you meant!
Good collection. “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” – George Orwell”–I learned that one.
Thanks! Yes, that Orwell quote really stands out!
Good quotes 👍 well shared.
Thank you very much!
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Good changeup; I’ll take the Oscar Wilde quote
Yeah, that one stands out!