Only the mediocre are always at their best.
—Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
quotes
Two Things
Leonard Bernstein: “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
First Refuge
In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
Publicity
“All publicity is good publicity except your own obituary.”
–Brendan Behan