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Mad Men

What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.

Don Draper: The reason you haven’t felt it is because it doesn’t exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You’re born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I’m living like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t one.

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Shel Silverstein

But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

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William Hazlitt

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

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Abraham Lincoln Mark Twain Samuel Johnson

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

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Jane Austen

very wholesome-at least everybody fancies so, and imagination is everything.

What fine weather this is! Not very becoming perhaps early in the morning, but very pleasant out of doors at noon, and very wholesome-at least everybody fancies so, and imagination is everything. To Edward, however, I really think dry weather of importance. I have not taken to fires yet.