Monday’s Toons & Quotes — 070

The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week.

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Toons

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Quotes

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements, trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics are not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in political life.
— Adrienne Rich

I have always thought the one man of intolerable abilities may work great changes and accomplish great affairs among mankind if he first forms a good plan and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
— Benjamin Franklin

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual me, men of talent, and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it indeed — apart from discernment — a certain greatness to find him.
— Margot Asquith

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
— John Aubrey

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Life is hard, but at least it’s short. — E. J. D’Alise (circa 1980)

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