“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” —Paul Theroux

“Evil comes up softly like a flower.” — Charles Baudelaire

“Nearly all of our faults are more forgivable than the means we use to hide them.” — La Rochefoucauld

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” — Saul Bellow

“We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.” — Graham Greene

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” — Winston Churchill

“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” — John Ciardi

“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.” — Søren Kierkegaard

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” — Joseph Campbell

“Tennessee’s a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia’s a lousy state too.” — Flannery O’Connor

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.” — Alexandre Dumas

“Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.” —Stendhal

“Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” — Doris Lessing

“One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.” — Bob Keeshan

“Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.” — Ogden Nash

“Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.” — Chuck Jones

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” — Fred Allen

“If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?” — James Madison

“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.” — Rebecca West