We Must Suffer the Screwball Gladly

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The freedom to make mistakes provides the best environment for creativity. – Frederic Amiel




Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth. – Bernice Fitz-Gibbon



More creativity is the only way to make tomorrow better than today. – anonymous



It is intelligent to ask two questions: 1) Is it possible? 2) Can I do it? But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: 1) Is it real? 2) Has my neighbor done it? – Soren Kierkegaard



People support what they help create. – anonymous



The various admirable movements in which I have been engaged have always developed among their numbers a large lunatic fringe. – Theodore Roosevelt



There is a correltation between the creatice and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. – Kingman Brewsters

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To Change and to Improve are Two Different Things

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can’t come out and those outside don’t want to get in. – Arthur Brisbane

The fear of death is the greatest compliment we pay to life. – Anonymous

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris

Life Can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

To change and to improve are two different things. – German proverb

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. – Confucius

The Only Animal That Can Remain on Friendly Terms with the Victims

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I believe that every right implies a responsibilty; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. – Soren Kierkegaard

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson

He who goes with wolves learns to howl. – Spanish proverb

You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Once the People Begin to Reason - All is Lost

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. – Karl Kraus

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. – Voltaire

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. – Georoge Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. – Oscar Wilde

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants. – Nietzsche

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. – Albert Camus

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. – Oscar Wilde

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