19 August

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Artemus Ward

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
G. K. Chesterton

18 August

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Ron Nesen

I hate women because they always know where things are.
James Thurber

17 August

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
Jef Mallett, Frazz

16 August

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie

15 August

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

14 August

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry

13 August

I don't really trust a sane person.
Lyle Alzado

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Stephen Leacock