William Makepeace Thackeray
“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”
“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”
“A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.”
“We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”
“The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.”
“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”
“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
“Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.”
“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”