“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
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– April 10, 2025
Sir Thomas Beecham
“A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it.”
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– April 5, 2025
Mark Twain
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.”
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– March 15, 2025
Unknown
“What if this weren’t a hypothetical question?”
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– March 4, 2025
Fran Lebowitz
“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
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– January 10, 2025
Woody Allen
“As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree’ — probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”
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– December 17, 2024
Woody Allen
“I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
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– November 16, 2024
Saki
“Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.”
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– November 15, 2024
Isaac Asimov
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
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– November 9, 2024
Eric Hoffer
“It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.”
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– November 3, 2024
