About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-- Herbert Hoover AA

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein AA

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-- Wilson Mizner AA

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson AA