QUOTES & HUMOR

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"
       - Mr. Bennett, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

"I am careless in replying to my friends, because I believe those whom I really love know me without my writing them."
       - Beethoven  

"All of my possessions for a moment of time."
       - Queen Elizabeth I, with her dying breathe 1603

"Mediocrity is self-infected and genius is self-bestowed."
       - Walter Russell

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
       - Benjamin Franklin

"There's no one to stop you but yourself."
       - Dave Thomas, Wendy's Founder

"When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny."
       - Bertice Berry, PhD, sociologist and author

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
       - William Shakespeare

Art

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
       - Pablo Picasso

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
       - Albert Einstein

Invention

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
       - Thomas Alva Edison

"Creativity is the ability to see beyond the obvious, shift perspectives, and explore ideas in new ways."
       - Joan C. King, PhD, author of Cellular Wisdom

"Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud."
       - Alex Osborn

Music

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."
       - Sergei Rachmaninov

Writing

"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."
       - Mark Twain

"The first draft of anything is shit."
       - Ernest Hemmingway

"I cannot live without books."
       - Thomas Jefferson

"Human beings are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories."
       - Robert C. Schank, cognitive scientist

"Writers inhale life and exhale literature."
       - Kenn Amdahl, author of Joy Writing

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
       - Henry Ward Beecher

"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
       - Charles de Montesquieu

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
       - Thomas Mann

HUMOR

• LawHaHa.com® -- McClurg's Legal Humor Headquarters

  Many items of legal humor including Strange Judicial Opinions, Funniest Law School Moments and Weird Legal News.

  www.lawhaha.com

• Scribble-in-Law -- by Charles Pugsley Fincher

  Humorous cartoons drawn on a legal pad that feature topical legal humor and satire.

  www.lawcomix.com