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“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.”
Source : "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" l. 99 (1747)
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“How would you like to make money in real estate?”
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“If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.”
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“Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.”
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“A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors.”
Source : Drug legalization debate, November 13, 2007.
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“Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.”
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“There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.”
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“It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first”
Source : Reginald Rose (2006). “Twelve Angry Men”, p.19, Penguin
