“Nothing prevents us from being
natural so much as the desire to appear so.”
La Rochefoucauld, the Gold Standard of epigrammists
“There are ways of curing madness,
but none of righting the wrong-headed.”
La Rochefoucauld
“It is not possible to enumerate
all the kinds of vanity.”
La Rochefoucauld
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy
has no pleasures.”
Samuel Johnson
“Love is blind, but marriage restores
its sight.”
Lichtenberg
“It is better to have your enemies
inside the tent pissing out than to have them outside the tent pissing in.”
Lyndon Johnson
“The difference between the almost-right
word and the right word is really a large matter. It’s the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain
“Always do right. This will gratify
some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
“All of us lie in the gutter, but
some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
And from my native city, some good advice.
“First, stick with the same drink
you started with. By that I mean that if you started the evening drinking champagne, beer and frozen daquiris, stick with
champagne, beer and frozen daquiris the rest of the evening....”
Mike Royko
on avoiding hangovers
“Never play cards with a man called
Doc, and never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
Nelson Algren
“An honest man is always a child.”
Martial
“Those who the gods love grow young.”
Oscar
Wilde
“Do not let yourself be deluded
by anyone; this is all I teach.”
Rinzai
“I’ve created a good environment.
All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.”
Warren
Buffett
Art is the only serious thing in the
world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar
Wilde
One should always be a little improbable.
Oscar Wilde
