Showing posts with label Michael Korda. Show all posts
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Monday, October 5, 2009

The High Price of Conjecture

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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. – Michael Korda

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she’s killed it. – Saki

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. – Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is the disease it purports to cure. – Karl Kraus

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. – Anatole France

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost become prohibitive. – William F. Buckley Jr.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. – John Galsworthy

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make a better soup. – H.L. Mencken