“What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?”
Isak Dinesen
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself”
Jessamyn West
“The irony here is the man who has done the most to keep these papers from becoming available, Dick Nixon, is the man who's going to benefit the most from them because people are going to start seeing the problems from his point of view.”
Stephen Ambrose
“It’s been said that youth is wasted on the young. I would respectfully like to put a few bullet holes in this theory. It is quite necessary for people to make stupid decisions, for the word experience comes from the definition of the action: “mistake”. In able to become wise, people must make stupid decisions. So the next time your thinking about running with the bulls in Spain, or having a hand to hand combat with Chuck Norris, do it. You become wise.”
Brandon Box
“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
Erica Jong
“Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"”
Annie Dillard
