Smart Stuff

He that scattereth thorns must not go barefoot.
Thomas Fuller
Man’s life is a warfare against the malice of men.
Baltasar Gracian
The malicious have a dark happiness.
Victor Hugo

Taking the size of his body into account, man emits more sperm than any other animal.
Aristotle
That man alone is affected by tickling is due firstly to the delicacy of his skin, and secondly to his being the only animal that laughs.
Aristotle
A wanderer is man from his birth.
He was born in a ship
On the breast […]

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Lord Chesterfield
O, Manners! That this age should bring forth such creatures!
Ben Jonson

I’m very old-fashioned. I believe that people should marry for life, like pigeons and Catholics.
Woody Allen
Marriage is not a word but a sentence. Anon
Marriage is the price men pay for sex, sex is the price women pay for marriage.
Anon
Alas! his marriage is a simultaneous equation, involving two unknowns and yielding a periodic function.
Anon
speaking of […]

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
G. K. Chesterton
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
George Bernard Shaw

The world would not be in such a snarl,
had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
Irving Berlin
telegram to Groucho Marx on his 71st birthday
Much of the world’s work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
John Kenneth Galbraith

What is algebra exactly; is it those three cornered things?
Sir J. M. Barrie
Quality Street, II
‘Tis a favorite project of mine
A new value of pi to assign.
I would fix it at three
For it’s simpler, you see,
Than 3 point 14159.
Professor Harvey L. Carter
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
The […]

Grown up, and that is a terible hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner
The latter part of a wise […]

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. Thomas
Bailey Aldrich
Only the mediocre are always at their best. Anon
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Valley of Fear”
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve […]