Need a quotation or two to throw out to friends and adversaries? Want to seem cerebral, etherial, and just plain smart? Here are a few bones to throw to your closest friends and snottiest enemies:
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. Cathy Guisewrite, Cartoonist
Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks, comedian, producer, actor
The hardest years in life are those between 10 and 70. Helen Hayes, actress
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates, philosopher
A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby, actor, comedian
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle, philosopher
I will never be old. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon, statesman, philosopher
Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do harm to the world. Voltaire, writer
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. Lord Byron, writer
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man’s reach….Art must make you laught a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet, artist
If it’s the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number? Robin Williams, Actor
Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning. Bob Hope, Actor
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus, Playwright
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein, Scientist
And my favorite:
Nobody likes a clown at midnight. Stephen King, writer
Humoring the Goddess 