“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No use being a damned fool about it.” — W.C. Fields

“Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!” — Walt Disney, during his last illness

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” — Sigmund Freud

“In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts in living color, we bring you another first, an attempted suicide.” — Florida newscaster Christine Chubbuck, before shooting herself on live television, July 15, 1974

“I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.” — Woody Allen

“Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.” — Alfonso, king of Castile (1221-1284), on studying the Ptolemaic system

“All generalizations are dangerous — even this one.” — Alexandre Dumas

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” — George Orwell

“Nothing is more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.” — Winston Churchill