QUOTES CCLXXI

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

 

No good deed goes unpunished.

(Attributed to) Oscar Wilde

 

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.

Thomas Mann 

 

The harshest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

Rod B. Johnson

 

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Jane Austen 

 

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

Lord (John Dalberg) Acton

 

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Henry David Thoreau 

 

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman

 

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

 

When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; and when he says no, he's no longer a diplomat.

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