Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight!
—Phyllis Diller, 1966
8
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
—Pythagoras
9
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
—Carl Sagan, 1980
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, 1929
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
—Eric Hoffer, 1955
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its
opposers.
—William Penn, 1682
***
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his
own heresy.
—G. K. Chesterton, 1909
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it’s really important.
—Madeleine L’Engle, 2004
What’s the sense of wrestling with a pig? You both get all over muddy … and the pig likes
it.
—Cyrus S. Ching, 1948
10
If you are arguing with an idiot, he is probably doing the same.
—Mikhail Zhvanetsky, 2010
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
—Bernard Baruch, 1983
***
8
Sometimes misattributed to William Congreve.
9
As quoted, without a date, by Diogenes Laërtius in the third century AD.
10
As quoted in a newspaper of that time; frequently misattributed to George Bernard Shaw.
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—Phyllis Diller, 1966
8
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
—Pythagoras
9
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
—Carl Sagan, 1980
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, 1929
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
—Eric Hoffer, 1955
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its
opposers.
—William Penn, 1682
***
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his
own heresy.
—G. K. Chesterton, 1909
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it’s really important.
—Madeleine L’Engle, 2004
What’s the sense of wrestling with a pig? You both get all over muddy … and the pig likes
it.
—Cyrus S. Ching, 1948
10
If you are arguing with an idiot, he is probably doing the same.
—Mikhail Zhvanetsky, 2010
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
—Bernard Baruch, 1983
***
8
Sometimes misattributed to William Congreve.
9
As quoted, without a date, by Diogenes Laërtius in the third century AD.
10
As quoted in a newspaper of that time; frequently misattributed to George Bernard Shaw.
On Human Attitudes
81