Old Mannisms (Great Minds edition)
This month we tip our hat to the great old (and mostly dead) man thinkers of the past. Drop one of these at your next work party and feel the newfound respect.
On your groove thing – shaking:
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
- George Bernard Shaw
On the invisible bulls eye of brilliance:
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
On tough rooms:
“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
-Voltaire
On investment strategy:
“Always buy land; they’re not making it any more.”
-Mark Twain
On God’s sudsy love:
“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
-Ben Franklin
On managing expectations:
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
-Ernest Hemingway
On the relevance of time:
“When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”
– Albert Einstein
On jurisprudence:
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
- Groucho Marx
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