The ideal life

Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain   (While he admittedly left God out of the factoring, those three elements do contribute to a more ideal life.  Add good faith/religion/spirituality to the mix and I would say it was ideal.)

The Inexpressible

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

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Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. - Candice Bergen   


I think fame and notoriety suffer from the same inflated importance in today's world.

One of the consequences of such notions of "entitlement" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence. - Thomas Sowell


You mean society doesn't?


Entitlement and privilege corrupt. - Vice Admiral James Stockdale


Anytime one gets privilege they better have a friend at hand to keep them humble and rooted in reality, otherwise corruption seems inevitable. 

Work & Spend

Get to know two things about a man - how he earns his money and how he spends it - and you have the clue to his character, for you have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. - Robert James McCraken  Forbes Leadership Library - Thoughts on Prosperity

The Forbes Library is a great collection of little books of quotes on various topics. While there might not be an abundance of funny quotes, there are some really great insightful quotes in the collection of books.

Political Correctness

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Being politically correct mean always having to say you're sorry. - Charles Osgood

Both quotes are taken from the Big Curmudgeon, a bitter but fun read in small doses.

Ancient Chinese Secret

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's own ignorance. - Confucius  (From Oxymoronica)

Perhaps our political leaders could benefit from this insight. Well, to be honest, who wouldn't benefit from a little more humility about their certainty and insight.

Robin Williams

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but the attention span of Daffy Duck. - Tom Shales (The Book of Poisonous Quotes)

I like a lot of Robin Williams movies, but I fear that he often falls into that categories of actors/comedians who just play themselves in various roles.