Ten Favorite Quotes

1. A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it. – Sir Thomas Beecham

2. My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. – Penn Juliette

3. A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. – Gian Vincenzo Gravina

4. The characteristic fact of the moment is that the mediocre soul, recognizing itself as mediocre, has the audacity to assert the right of mediocrity and impose it everywhere. – Jose Oretega y Gasset

5. Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. – Jules de Gautier

6. Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. – Agamemnon

7. A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. – Arthur C. Clarke

8. Giving money and power to Congress is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P. J. O’Rourke

9. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. – Thomas Sowell

10. “Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else’s puzzle” – Lawrence Kushner