A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Maxwell Planck)
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. (Robert Francis Kennedy)
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. (Sigmund Freud)
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. (Vincent Van Gogh)
The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. (Lance Morrow)
All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. (A. C. Benson)
The truth, as the light, makes blind. (Albert Camus)
The basis for optimism is sheer terror. (Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
The Kennedy organization doesn't run, it purrs. (Rowland Evans, Jr.)
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. (Ayn Rand)
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. (May Sarton)
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. (S. J. Perelman)
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. (A Bartlett Giamatti)
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. (Gladys Taber)
To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours. (Earl Riney)
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. (Giacomo Leopardi)
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible. (Eddie Cantor)
People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black. (Henry Ford)