Eric Sevareid

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

J. Bartlett Brebner

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Bill Watterson

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Frank Zappa

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

Joe Martin

If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

Laurence J. Peter

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Pierre Beaumarchais

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Douglas Adams

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Clever...

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Joan Rivers

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.

Dennis Miller

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.

Herbert Rappaport

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

G. M. Trevelyan

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Immanuel Kant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.