I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
- George Burns

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
- Henri Poincare

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
- Judith Martin

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
- Cullen Hightower

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
- Artemus Ward

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
- John Cage

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
- Emo Phillips

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber