Here’s a 165-year old but still fitting comment on public officials who are so sure they’re right that they’ll drive over a cliff rather than compromise: “Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt — are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: a Novel without a Hero (1848).The author’s middle name really was “Makepeace.” As the quote shows, he disliked those who would not. William Makepeace Thackeray
I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound,...
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Jonathan Swift
Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly." That's ridiculous! " murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch."...
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Harlan Ellison
...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean."" Wow that would be terrific, " I said
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Robert Kroese
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.
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Chuck Palahniuk
More Quotes By William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
