Common Man Thinks

Quotes of the Day

• Alan Patrick Herbert
  "The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep." […]
• James Thurber
  "I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." […]
• Oscar Levant
  "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." […]
• Hannah Arendt
  "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." […]