There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
-- Robertson Davies

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
-- G. K. Chesterton, The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
-- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
-- Mickey Mouse

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
-- Edgar Watson Howe