Other People's Words for Thursday
Alfred North Whitehead
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
James Thurber
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
Gustave Flaubert
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
Richard Feynman
"Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong."
Sacha Guitry
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."