Quotes About Paradox

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

It's unwise to be born; it's unwise to be married; it's unwise to live; and it's unwise to die. - Buhon

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that 1 enjoys it?

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!

The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

I don't want something that's good for headaches. I want something that's bad for headaches. And good for me.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

scientific insight and furnished lodgings: the incompatibility

so much that seems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty.

Blessed be the merciless, for they shall see God's enormous shrug.

A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

I won every award you could win in television. I got paid well. And people loved '30 Rock'. And I loved '30 Rock'. I mean, sometimes you do a show that's a hit show, and you hate it.

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!