Bill Fitzhugh

PREVIOUS QUOTES

"It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet."
         -- Damon Runyan

"Life is a gamble at terrible odds. If it was a bet you wouldn’t take it"
         -- Tom Stoppard

"Some mornings it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
         -- Emo Phillips

"It is an odd calling to make decent folk laugh."
         -- Moliere

"Optimism," said Candide, "is a mania for maintaining that all is well when things are going badly."
         -- Voltaire

"All of life is six to five against."
         -- Damon Runyon

"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all theperformers are well trained."
         -- Edward R. Murrow

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to be got by it."
         -- Charles Dickens

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
         -- Upton Sinclair

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
         -- Jonathan Swift

"Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth."
         -- Carl Van Doren

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
         -- Oscar Wilde

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