Quotes by Columnists

[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.
Paul Krugman
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Home
Too much truth Is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams
I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
Fanny Fern
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald
I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
Burton Hillis
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
Doug Larson
I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious no matter what it costs.
Art Buchwald
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
Art Buchwald
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
Being frustrated is disagreeable but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
Irving Kristol
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George F. Will
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.
H. I. Phillips
If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
Marilyn Vos Savant
Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.
Marcelene Cox
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
Gladys Taber
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
Marcelene Cox
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Bill Vaughan
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.
Gene Hill
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
Maeve Binchy
It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.
Marcelene Cox
The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.
Dave Barry
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Marcelene Cox
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
Marcelene Cox
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Bill Vaughan
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.
Gene Hill
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
Maeve Binchy
It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.
Marcelene Cox
The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.
Dave Barry
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Marcelene Cox
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.
Doug Larson
Money won't buy happiness but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.
Franklin P. Adams
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.
Heywood Broun
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin Pierce Adams
A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.
Marcelene Cox
Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline . . . too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with. . . something about yourself your career your spouse.
Dale Dauten
Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
Apparently he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine if you get my drift.
Dave Barry
Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.
Dave Barry
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
Marilyn Vos Savant
Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson
Happiness is not something you get but something you do.
Marcelene Cox
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
Earl Wilson
Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.
Gladys Taber
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox