Smart Stuff

It doesn’t say much for society, if gambling is the main method of raising money
for good causes. Anon
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business
known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted
to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who […]

I’ve had enough of gardening - I’m just about ready to throw in the trowel. Anon
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a
month, kill a pig; but if you […]

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We
are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Charles Dudley Warner

It is a gorgeous gold pocket watch. I’m proud of it. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Woody Allen
An optimist is a person who thinks he can get by with saying “Thanks” to the
head waiter.
Anon
Generous? Why that man would give you the sleeves out of his vest. Anon
Sire, four virgins wait without.
Without […]

Genius is sorrow’s child.
John Adams
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is sacrificed to talent every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius gets around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in […]

A true gentleman is a man who knows how to play the bagpipes - but doesn’t. Anon
A gentleman is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
H. L. Mencken

They are a fine people but quick to catch the disease of humanity. I think it’s because of their poor elimination. Germany is a headquarters for constipation.
George Grosz
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
Karl Kraus
…German - a language…which was developed solely to afford […]

When glory comes, memory departs.
French Proverb
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
Martial
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But looked too near, have neither heat nor light.
John Webster

Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the
better ordering of the universe.
Alfonso (X) The Wise
Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, “Thine is the kingdom and the
power and the glory. Thou hast a good job. Don’t blow it.”
Fred Allen
God’s plan made a hopeful […]

If you try to cleanse others - like soap, you will waste away in the process.
African Proverb
The good die young - because they see it’s no use living if you’ve got to be good.
John Barrymore
All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Arnold Bennett
He who […]