"Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!"

-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Men Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Care Quotes

“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”

Source : Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)
“Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.”
“Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.”
“The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.”

Source : Murray Leinster (2007). “The Planet Explorer”, p.85, Wildside Press LLC
“Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.”
“No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.”
“Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.”
“The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.”

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