"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1930)
"Old age is the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of."
--From the movie Citizen Kane, 1941
"We are what we pretend to be."
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
--T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
--Josh Billings (1818-1885)
"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so."
--Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth ins't."
--Mark Twain (1935-1910)
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
--Mark Twain (1935-1910)
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
--Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
These quotations are from Robert Byrne's, "The 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said."
