"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."

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Source : 1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

Thornton Wilder

#Funny Quotes #People Quotes #Insanity Quotes

“We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.”
“I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the Australian political class. One reason is that we like to place enormous burdens of expectations on modern political leaders. To be sure such expectations aren't always honest. Just as we want better public services but object to paying the higher taxes that would make them possible, we often want leadership but only if there aren't hard choices with real consequences.”
“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
“By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.”

Source : "Erin McKean comes to terms with fashion" by Beth Hughes, www.sfgate.com. August 6, 2012.
“Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.”
“We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.”
“I learned in my early years in the theater that I would never become the guy on top. I'll never create a show; I don't have a brain expansive enough to see the whole picture, in a way that would behoove anyone.”
“At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.”

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