Wit & Wisdom

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, quoted in the Associated Press

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”

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Kurt Vonnegut, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald

“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”

Author Jean Kerr, quoted in the Columbia, Mo., Daily Tribune

“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”

Author Robert Heinlein, quoted in The Village Voice

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

William Faulkner, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com

“God may have had fun at creation, but he didn’t really think things through.”

Filmmaker Lars von Trier, quoted in Time

“All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.”

Blaise Pascal, quoted in the London Guardian