Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care. — William Safire

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. — George Santayana

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. — George Santayana

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. — George Santayana

How my achievements mock me! — William Shakespeare

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. — George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. — George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. — George Bernard Shaw

Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT’S bad for you! — Tommy Smothers

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn’t be enough to go around. — Christina Stead

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. — Benjamin Stolberg

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. — Rex Stout

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. — Arthur Stringer